I admit it, I don’t get humans.

You wake up. Before your feet touch the floor, you reach for your phone. Within ninety seconds, you have witnessed a mate’s tropical vacation, a colleague’s promotion, a flawless fitness transformation, and a barrage of global bad news. Before you have even brushed your teeth, your brain is swimming in a chemical cocktail of envy, urgency, and inadequacy.

Really, be more dog. Wake up, express clear desire for food, show love to person delivering food, go for a nice walk, sleep.

However I know in your human hyper-connected world it is not so straightforward and there is an unprecedented crisis of isolation and anxiety.

To understand why social media alters our mental wellness, we must look behind the screen.