How Social Media Triggers Abandonment Issues

HUNTINGTON, N.Y. - March 13, 2023 - PRLog -- Social media triggers abandonment.

That feeling of not having the life that everyone else seems to be having, or not being liked as much as other people are being liked, or feeling excluded when friends are having a party.

It causes inflammation in that raw abandonment nerve that we all have. And that nerve once inflamed is so easy to bump into so that we're more vulnerable to anything that happens to us during the day because we're already set to feel a little bit behind because of social media, where we stand on Facebook and all of these other different social media sites.

We are more vulnerable than we used to be, especially young people whose self-image is just forming and are impressionable by what other people think.

Susan Anderson

Susan Anderson is a practicing psychotherapist and founder of the Abandonment Recovery Program, who has devoted over 30 years of clinical experience and research to helping victims of abandonment trauma heal heartache, grief and shame and overcome "outer child" patterns of self-sabotage.

Continue reading / watch video: https://www.abandonment.net/articles/how-social-media-tri...