Are Dating Apps Bad for Your Mental Health?

About this episode

The episode discusses the impact of dating apps on mental health, focusing on rejection and emotional challenges.

Rejection is part of dating—but on apps, it can feel relentless. A thousand swipes for a single match, only to get ghosted. What used to be competition with a handful of people at a bar is now competition with everyone in your city (or even your state). In this episode, Daniel and Jinah sit down with mental health therapist @iamthatboyphil and writer @ivyeats to unpack the emotional burnout, self-sabotage, and unrealistic expectations that dating apps so often create.

People in this episode

Hosts: Daniel Yi, Jinah Kim

Guests: @iamthatboyphil, @ivyeats

Topics covered

• mental health
• dating apps
• rejection
• emotional burnout
• self-sabotage
• unrealistic expectations

Keywords

• dating apps
• mental health
• rejection
• ghosting
• emotional burnout
• self-sabotage
• expectations

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