The interface between social media and psychological disorders It's 3 in the morning and Jamie wakes up from a deep sleep. The first thing Jamie does is check her Facebook page for any activity she may have missed. Jamie goes to his home page and notices that he has no new notifications. He looks at the last photo he posted and realizes that no one commented or hit the Like button on the posts he wrote before going to sleep. Jamie is upset that her post hasn't garnered her any new comments or likes. She screams…. "It's been 10 hours since I posted that photo because no one else has commented on it!" Jamie spends the next two hours scrolling through Facebook looking at her friend's photos and posts. After a thorough examination, she feels depressed because her friend posted a photo 2 hours ago and received twenty likes and seven comments on her post. Social media has the ability to alter the emotions of individuals. People feel on top of the world thanks to the many friends they have on their Facebook page. Having friends on Facebook provides them with a sense of acceptance they have never experienced. These experiences are a gateway to a flow of emotions that have the potential to harm as well as help. Social media has helped you feel emotionally connected and is a simple and effective way to stay in touch with family and friends; however, it is harmful when it is guilty of facilitating and fueling unhealthy discussions and relationships. “As Danish academic Anders Colding-Jorgensen argues: 'We should no longer see the Internet as a post office where information is sent back and forth, but rather as an open arena for our identity and self-promotion...... paper middle…excessive use of social media platforms and the Dark Triad: a set of personality traits that includes psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and narcissism” (Mariani 85). “A 2013 study by German researchers supports Fox's Pavlovian intuition. In it, the authors found that individuals who spent more time on Facebook had higher levels of activity in the nucleus accumbens, the brain's reward center. Perhaps social media not only activates the brain's reward center, but over time trains it to respond more intensely to social praise” (Mariani 88). “Some people who are narcissistically vulnerable have difficulty maintaining a cohesive sense of self due to omnipresent shame. , resulting from the conclusion that they fundamentally fall short of some internal ideal. They seek constant reinforcement from others to strengthen their fragile self-image” (Bender 880).