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Medium is Causing Mental Health Issues!
I can completely see that… here’s my story
I discovered Medium in 2019. It was a period of change in my life and I felt like I wanted to write again. And so I did.
Medium was an excellent “medium” for writing… if you’ll forgive the pun. At first, it was just a way for me to get back into writing again. It had been a while and the ease with which Medium let me set up a site was excellent.
Soon, I was firing off articles and getting views and claps. Medium is a fantastic platform for organic traffic. It’s so easy to find reach quickly.
I was lucky. I think my third article started to get a lot of attention. I hadn’t monetized at the time so, I wasn’t earning anything. But, the number of views itself was the reward.
The Views
This started to become something of an obsession.
Once I started to put articles behind the paywall, all I could do was check my stats every hour.
It wasn’t pleasant.
I saw cents coming in and at first it was very exciting but, in time it started to eat away at me and cause an inordinate amount of anxiety.
When I failed to get enough views and make enough money, I started to imagine that I was…
