Break Up With Your Phone

It ’s time you sat down with your social media habits and said, ”It ’s not me, it ’s you.”

- Jessica Nair

Envy. It ’s literally a deadly sin. Yet why do we all allow ourselves to succumb to it every single moment of our modern lives? Your mental health hangs in the balance, and it doesn’t even need to involve a cyber bully bringing you down. It seems that you can even lay the trap for yourself, and you put yourself into a vicious cycle just by a scroll of your feed. What ’s scariest about this is that it ’s all on us.

Let ’s get something straight—everyone experiences envy from time to time; that ’s perfectly okay. “First and foremost, everyone should accept the fact that they’re experiencing such feelings. This is the first step to overcoming denial and to start working on the problem,” says Ms R.R. Manjari, Consultant Clinical Psychologist at Gleneagles Medini Hospital. However, what ’s not okay?

WHERE IS THE LINE