Social media use exceeding two hours daily directly causes measurable increases in clinical depression among adolescents.

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0 ◎ stannebraska (329) · 7 months ago · social-psychology, psychopathology, digital-media-effects, adolescent-mental-health, developmental-psychology, clinical-psychology

This claim asserts a causal relationship between heavy social media usage (defined as more than two hours per day) and clinically diagnosable depression in teenagers, suggesting that the platform use itself is a direct causative factor rather than merely correlational.

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