🧠What’s harming your mental health on social media? Are often the very people preaching well-being.
You came for something light, some insight, maybe a bit of perspective.
And what do you get?
Vague mantras.
Conflicting advice — from one day to the next, or even in the same post.
Tearful stories with mandatory happy endings.
“Fun” content with perfect hooks but zero consistency.
Day after day. Week after week.
Now stop for a second. Ask yourself: how are you really managing all that content?
Your brain scrolls, stores, filters, compares, questions.
Maybe you’re starting to wonder:
“Am I the problem for not feeling aligned with all this?”
And without noticing… you’re exhausted.
How could you not be affected by all these contradictions?
No visible stress. But invisible overload.
A slow, silent saturation.
Same mechanism as corporate-level benevolence:
well-optimized, soft… and the perfect recipe for a Max-out.
An overflow of influence, fuzzy messages, micro-pressure.
All delivered by people who genuinely care — and just want you to feel better. Efficiently.
Not enough to collapse. Just enough to wear you down, and leave you wondering what strategy to try next.
Feeling drained — from work, from your feed, from the content your company says you should share?
Want to check where you really stand?
👉 10 reflective questions here:
https://www.philippevivier.com/comment-auto-evaluer-son-rapport-au-travail-dix-questions-pour-reperer-un-max-out.html
đź“„ Or read a real-life case with deeper analysis:
https://zenodo.org/records/15720258