How much is Instagram to blame for the rise in teenage girl self-harm?
5 min readDec 17, 2021
This essay was first published in the Wiser! Newsletter on the 5th December 2021.
Between 2010 and 2014, the rates of self-harm, depression and anxiety amongst teenage girls doubled.
The same can not be said for boys in the same age range, or for women who are older. This is unusual and the cause is unknown. However, a…
