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Faking happiness on social media helped me cope with depressionMy life looks pretty good on Facebook. If you browsed through my feed, you might see a photo of me drinking wine by my husband in a hot tub, surrounded by a foot of snow. Then there are more blatant self-congratulations: Check out this NPR piece that was filmed during my last mushroom-collecting field trip, or, I was just named a Top Writer on Quora! And if you kept scrolling back a bit, you’d find that I appeared to be having an absolutely awesome time during my most difficult years struggling with depression.
Updated July 21, 20226 min read