The Stress Loop: How Always Being On Online Is Quietly Damaging Your Mental Health
You are not using your phone right now. But you are probably still thinking about it. That background alertness has a name, a mechanism, and a direct pathway to mental health decline – and it has nothing to do with how many hours you log on screen. Here is what the research actually shows about online vigilance, why stress is the real variable, and what that means for what you should try next.
