Social Media’s Role In Mental Health Awareness: A Review Study

Abstract

Social media has emerged as a powerful platform for communication, connection, and information dissemination, significantly influencing public discourse on various issues, including mental health. This review focuses on the role of social media in the broader debate of public understanding of mental health awareness. It provides a framework for thinking about the problem of mental health illness. A sample of 35 research papers was selected based on rigorous inclusion and exclusion criteria. Following the PRISMA approach for review study, the current research gathered and synthesized the findings of publications from 2015-2025. The literature review points out the various unfavourable impacts on the victims’ mental health and well-being, including isolation, stress, anxiety, and depression. This dynamic exacerbates mental health and undermines individual confidence. The findings suggest the absence of quantification of impacts, emphasizing the requirement for further discussion and increasing awareness about mental health illness. The review emphasizes that awareness-raising and providing critical tools for identifying mental health illness are necessary and urges parents, guardians, government, clinical psychologists, counsellors, and other authorities to work together to lessen the negative impact of mental illness on individual well-being. Such insights will provide for future research to design interventions to provide emotional support to the victims is significant to mitigate the impacts.