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Mental health problems should be addressed due to its prevalence in society blamed on the increased use of digital media, academic pressure and limited mental health care reports the US Surgeon General’s office. Several studies have been conducted with regards to the role of the media on overdiagnosis in mental health on social media, but the more salient findings or patterns of findings of the studies spanning over ten years are unknown which this research aims to investigate. Agenda-setting theory will be used to frame the study by identifying the more salient findings. The articles identified will be from 2014 to 2025 and extracted from SCOPUS, Web of Science, and Google Scholar. It will adopt the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. The findings will then be analysed thematically. There will be several themes and codes generated from the data reflecting the role of social media and other factors in the overdiagnosis of mental health. The study will have two research questions: 1. Does social media solely contribute to one’s overdiagnosis or is it combined with other factors? 2. Which research findings are the most salient? Recommendations will be made from the findings.