Researchers Say this Detox May Erase 10 Years of Social-media Brain Damage

The young woman described to a jury what it was like to lose control of her life to social media.

She began as a child, she said, and over time the habit expanded to fill nearly every available hour — late nights bleeding into early mornings, sleep gradually displaced. She would try to stop and find herself returning in a loop she could not escape. As her use intensified, so did her distress: anxiety, depression and a growing fixation on her appearance.

"I wanted to be on it all the time," the 20-year-old testified in the landmark trial against Meta and YouTube, before a jury found the companies negligent and ordered them to pay her $6 million in damages.

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