How social comparison is stealing your peace and definitely your health

Currently, the social comparison has become the first cause of people dissatisfaction, because they are focusing on what others have or are in comparison with them having as consequences discontent with themselves. This new trend has dug deeper inside people, who are looking at social networking sites potential role models to follow up, the thing is that in this apparently inoffensive searching people are increasingly engaged in their self-deterioration.

When people are surfing social networking sites are looking something new, innovator, different, that can provide at least some entertainment before to continue with the busy agenda. However, the consequences of being engaged in social networking sites are increasingly evident and social comparison is one of them.

Social comparison born of the people heart almost without they realized, because starts as a thought, that thought will be growing at the extent people continue to make themselves questions about why others have what they have and why we do not have it?, is there something wrong in us that it is difficult to accomplish our goals and others have already accomplished? What is wrong with us? Why she has that beautiful body after her pregnancy and I do not have it?

Those questions sound familiar, right? yes, we are comparing ourselves to others and inside of us desiring to be others may be like the photos of Instagram or Facebook. The most important thing is that those who are in Instagram or Facebook with these spectacular photos are normal people like you or me, just, they are using filters, or edition to look better than really they are.

Social networking sites have become in a portal of information, diffusion, communication, and entertainment, but the first motivation of these social networking sites gives people to know a new concept of life where people can live totally happy, without worries and even look great without too many efforts. Some recent investigations have evidenced that people who are expending too much time on social networking sites are more likely to be involved in social comparison and dissatisfaction having as consequences depression, anxiety, and social isolation.

The dissatisfaction or discontent with themselves brings as consequence a state of stress to their bodies because they are rejecting their own lives to be more like the other’s one. The human body is producing and releasing into the blood many chemical substances in stressful situations that could be the explanation for the harmful effect of social comparison to the people health.

As part of the solution, it is necessary that people understand that everybody is different, that the other’s life it not necessary theirs and the most important thing, never, ever, make comparisons to others because people have a background, culture, history, and life that is different from yours. The solution is not to cut social networking sites of the people’s lives, the solution is improving the people's knowledge about it, to learn how to handle social comparison and even better to teach people how to self-accept themselves avoiding comparison patterns and envy.

In short, social comparison is stealing people peace and health because it is affecting the people self-esteem having as consequence a dissatisfaction state that could be affecting people health at the end.

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