Less TikTok, More Screaming - Persinette
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social media therapists & feeling nothing as an epidemic
Less TikTok Like many, many others, I am hopelessly addicted to my phone. Years ago I had a boyfriend turn on the screen time alerts feature in an effort to help me curb my phone usage—to this day this has done nothing but help me track my steadily increasing dependence. When I’m caught in the endless scroll, I’m aware that my dopamine receptors (or whatever) are being manipulated by the consistent stream of novel stimuli—memes and pictures of hot people and videos of beautiful products blinking at me like a slot machine, and this is likely why I have such a difficult time snapping out of…
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