{"id":5624,"date":"2022-12-09T10:06:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wellconnected.murad.com\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=5624"},"modified":"2025-06-25T16:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T23:14:14","slug":"is-it-cool-to-be-anxious-is-social-media-glamorizing-depression-a-look-at-why-mental-health-might-be-trendy-now","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wellconnected.murad.com\/podcast\/is-it-cool-to-be-anxious-is-social-media-glamorizing-depression-a-look-at-why-mental-health-might-be-trendy-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it cool to be anxious? Is social media glamorizing depression? A look at why mental health might be \u2018trendy\u2019 now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With social media often dictating culture\u2014from skin and body positivity movements to normalizing formerly stigmatized mental health conditions\u2014is the proliferation of popular meme accounts glorifying anxiety, depression and the \u201csad girl\u201d persona? Is social media rightly celebrating mental health, or unnecessarily causing more of it? Join host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alisonhaislip\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alison Haislip<\/a> as she chats with lifestyle influencer Samantha Klein (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/samswhurld\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@samswhurld<\/a>) and therapist Shani Tran (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@theshaniproject?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@theshaniproject<\/a>) to answer all these questions and more. For more wellness stories like this, be sure to check out <a href=\"https:\/\/wellconnected.murad.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wellconnected.murad.com<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With social media often dictating culture\u2014from skin and body positivity movements to normalizing formerly stigmatized mental health conditions\u2014is the proliferation of popular meme accounts glorifying anxiety, depression and the \u201csad girl\u201d persona? Is social media rightly celebrating mental health, or unnecessarily causing more of it? Join host Alison Haislip as she chats with lifestyle influencer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":5633,"template":"","categories":[2],"class_list":["post-5624","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mind"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":{"show_featured_image":true,"primary_category":{"term_id":2,"name":"Mind","slug":"mind","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":76,"filter":"raw"},"mobile_image":false,"podcast_id":"3boZpkc3mAgfHeMXFb3yFK","podcast_links":[{"link_title":"Spotify","link_url":"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/3boZpkc3mAgfHeMXFb3yFK?si=588972b4e23940e7"},{"link_title":"Apple Podcasts","link_url":"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/is-it-cool-to-be-anxious-is-social-media-glamorizing\/id1563571893?i=1000589487296"},{"link_title":"Google Podcasts","link_url":"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9hWHVzallhMw\/episode\/NGUyODRlNGYtOWFjZi00NTM2LTk3YjAtOTM5NDNlNjRjNjJk?sa=X&amp;ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwi40Zmii-v7AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQNQ"}],"post_views_count":"3087","sidebar_products":{"use_global_default":false,"title":"Related Products","items":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellconnected.murad.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/podcast\/5624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellconnected.murad.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/podcast"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellconnected.murad.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/podcast"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellconnected.murad.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellconnected.murad.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/5633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellconnected.murad.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellconnected.murad.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}