Even the most emotionally robust among us have fallen victim to a bout of social-media induced comparisonitis, especially when it comes to comparing our lives to those of the people ‘closest’ to us. With celebs sharing their low moments across more and more, should we join them or is that opening us up to ridicule or scepticism?
Open your Instagram app and within a few short minutes, you may very well want to click back out again. Whether you’re consumed with envy over a colleague’s recent post or feeling slighted by a pic from an influencer’s trip to Dubai, social media can be a trigger for your deepest insecurities and even the most emotionally robust among us have surely fallen victim to a bout of social-media induced comparisonitis. But recently a strange...