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Google's YouTube just settled a major addiction lawsuit brought by a 15-year-old Florida teen, who alleged that infinite scroll and autoplay features were deliberately designed to drive compulsive use, causing him anxiety and sleep deprivation.

This comes right after a landmark jury verdict awarded another young plaintiff $6 million after finding Meta and YouTube liable for their platforms' mental health effects — and a separate jury ordered Meta to pay $375 million for misleading users about child safety.

Read More: Google's YouTube Settles Social Media Addiction Case With Teen (BBC)

Game of Thrones star Hannah Murray, who played Gilly, revealed in her new memoir that her time in an alleged wellness cult led to a "catastrophic" psychotic break, recalling how the group's leader, "Steve," convinced her she'd been possessed by a demon and that he'd "performed an exorcism" on her — and she was eventually involuntarily committed, telling friends and family, "I did not enter ill and leave well... I entered extremely psychotic and left somewhat less so."

She later received a bipolar disorder diagnosis, but even leaving the hospital wasn't enough to break the group's hold — she walked straight back toward the very organization that had hospitalized her.

Read More: Game of Thrones' Hannah Murray Details Weeks-Long Hospitalization While in Alleged Cult (E! News)

Jeff Bezos describes running his new AI startup as "Type 2 fun" — the kind where "after you finish climbing the mountain, you're like, 'Oh boy, that was fun climbing the mountain,'" a concept that aligns with research showing that people don't actually maximize moment-to-moment happiness (Type 1 fun) — they crave meaning and accomplishment (Type 2), even when the process to get there is genuinely hard.

Research shows that constantly chasing good feelings in the moment actually correlates with feeling less happy overall, since life's inevitable hardships leave us beating ourselves up for falling short of an unrealistic standard.

Read More: Jeff Bezos Says There Are 2 Types of Fun. Psychologists Say 1 of Them Is the Key to Ultimate Happiness (Inc.)

MYTH: Mental health has no real impact on physical health.

FACT: Mental health illness ripples into physical health, weakening the immune system and increasing the risk of chronic diseases.

In the U.S., people living with depression are 40% more likely to develop cardiovascular and metabolic diseases like diabetes — those with serious mental illness are at nearly double the risk.

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