If you’ve ever silently panicked watching your teen disappear into the TikTok vortex, you’re definitely not the only parent feeling that mix of fascination and frustration. TikTok isn’t just an app for teens; it’s where they joke, learn, decompress, socialize, express themselves, and yes… sometimes scroll way past the point where it feels healthy.

A 2023 research from Psychiatry Research studied teens who were varied users of TikTok and other short-video apps from moderate users to addictive users. The researchers found that the “addictive user” group exhibited significantly poorer outcomes across mental-health, schooling, and family-environment measures. Think: higher levels of depression, anxiety, stress, loneliness, social anxiety, attention problems, and poorer sleep quality and life

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