Hailey Bieber now does a weekly Instagram detox after being cyberbullied, and she says her mental health is better for it

• Hailey Bieber said she quit Twitter and limits her Instagram after years of being cyberbullied.
• Bieber said she couldn't stand being constantly compared to Selena Gomez after she married.

Hailey Bieber says she takes a weekly Instagram detox to protect her mental health, and it's helping.

The 24-year-old model started her detox recently, after enduring two years of cyberbullying following her high-profile marriage to Justin Bieber.

On her YouTube channel on Wednesday, Bieber told psychiatrist Dr. Jessica Clemons she was constantly being compared to her husband's ex-girlfriend Selena Gomez.

For a while, she was fixated on what people were saying, but since she started limiting her use of social media, Bieber said, everything has changed.

Bieber now limits her use of Instagram, only looking at it on the weekends.

"One of the things that I've found really helped me was I started doing something that I don't go on Instagram Monday through Friday," Bieber said.

She has also turned off comments from users she doesn't follow, and quit Twitter altogether.

"The thought of even opening the [Twitter] app gives me so much bad anxiety that I feel like I'm going to throw up."

Social media impacts our physical and mental health

As Clemons discusses with Bieber, there is plenty of research linking social media to poor health.

Studies have found links between using social media at night and lack of sleep. Others have found that social media impacts mood or body positivity.

There's also plenty of research on the musculoskeletal issues linked to bending over our phones, and the visual strain from looking at a screen for hours.

Experts suggest limiting your use to 30 minutes a day.