Social media is a must. Teens all over the country rely on social media as a form of communication, and the recently popularized platform TikTok has begun to be questioned in regards to its impact on mental health. As mental health conversations have become more normalized, social media use has begun to be correlated with the assumed increase in depression, anxiety, eating disorders and more. Oftentimes, social media is looked at as the cause for these issues, but is this truly the case?