Victory Bay reports a surge in eating disorders among teens, driven by social media pressures and academic stress since the ...

As adolescents continue to spend more time on screens and social media, a new study finds that among 9–14-year-olds, excessive time online is associated with a higher risk of having eating disorder ...

As a freshman in high school, Caroline Koziol competed in the Connecticut statewide championship, swimming the 100-yd. butterfly in just over a minute. By senior year, she could barely climb the ...

NEW YORK - 1974: An artistic pre-Photoshop montage (created in the darkroom by layering negatives together) of a worried, stressed woman with a stopwatch literally on her mind in New York City, New ...

In this interview, I asked Charlotte Markey, Ph.D., a body image expert and fellow Psychology Today blogger ("Smart People Don't Diet"), about the following timely topics: The role that social media ...

Avoidant personality disorder (AVPD) causes severe social anxiety and a fear of judgment. This leads to a person isolating themselves from others and avoiding social situations. People with AVPD often ...

It’s a situation many of us know all know too well: You find yourself endlessly scrolling through social media, only to realize that much more time has passed than you realized, or intended to spend ...