Adele Zeynep Walton is a British-Turkish journalist and campaigner specialising in the human impacts of digital technology and social media and the author of Logging Off: The Human Cost of Our Digital World. She was formerly Dazed’s first ever political book columnist, and she has interviewed authors including Naomi Klein, George Monbiot, Angela Saini and Emma Dabiri.
As someone who has experienced body dysmorphia, lockdown could have been a make or break moment for my recovery. Being inside for prolonged periods without access to the gym, which had previously become my way of suppressing my obsessive thoughts, would have pushed me over the edge a few years...