Social Media Addiction Test Results — High
Battling addiction & ready for help?
Your result
Highon a scale of 6 to 30
Researchers treat 19 or higher as the point where it is worth looking more closely. Yours is above that.
That is not a diagnosis, and it does not mean you are an addict. It means your answers look like a pattern clinicians recognize, and that is worth a conversation with someone who treats it.
Screen used: Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale (Andreassen and colleagues, 2012), 6 questions.
Your answers point to use that is affecting how you feel day to day, and that has not shifted when you have tried to cut down.
What tends to help at this level
- Talk to a clinician. Heavy social media use often sits alongside anxiety or depression, and treating that helps more than blocking apps.
- Consider a full break of a week, with something planned in the gap.
Where to go next
This is a self-check, not a diagnosis. No questionnaire can tell you whether you have a condition, and a low score does not mean nothing is wrong if it is affecting your life. Read more about social media addiction, or speak to a clinician.
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