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How SOCIAL MEDIA
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MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS —
and How to Restore
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NICHOLAS KARDARAS, PH.D.
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bias and agenda, Google decided to ditch its now meaningless "Don't
I was pissing in the wind 1
Be Evil" motto; it was removed completely from Google's corporate
time as the problem, withc
code of conduct in 2018.19
societal dynamics that wer
Evil was now permissible —of course it was.
I had a nagging and €
And one may argue this is indeed the inevitable way of growth and
deeper and direr than sin
power; as Lord Acton famously said, "Power corrupts and absolute
ation to our devices just
power corrupts absolutely." So why wouldn't this apply to the tech
a more comprehensive ag
industry and the people who created it? After all, we're talking about
complex than "Johnny an
more wealth and real power than any human being has ever expe-
There were major society
rienced. The question that we need to ask then is how would their
medical impacts; there we
perspectives —even their humanity itself —be warped by such power?
Most importantly, our sp
And as I researched I
To be clear, none of this had been my original focus.
As a psychologist specializing in mental health and addiction, my
about greed (although tr
entire focus over the past decade had been "screen addiction," not the
destrian for the most pov
larger context of the cultural and economic aspects of the problem.
yesterday. I'll discuss tho
Having seen firsthand the increasingly adverse clinical effects of screen
Regardless of whethe
time, I'd become alarmed at how quickly these new magical devices
the agenda is clearly me
were creating serious problems for people —especially younger ones.
control is a necessary in
I started writing about, researching, clinically treating, and gen-
namics and oligarchies t
erally raising awareness about the impacts of the screen invasion on
Because addiction tr
an individAl a sh
our society and the attendant "tech addiction" that invariably came
makes
is and what's left i
with it. My entire focus had been technology addiction, as I went on
gone,
to develop treatment programs and protocols to address what was
of whatever the person
becoming a growing global epidemic.
rational, as it often has
I had even been contracted by the U.S. military to do trainings for
with such a severe sugar
the Department of Defense (DoD) mental health providers on how to
cream, despite the pote
assess and treat video game addiction. Gaming addiction is so severe
lung cancer and emphy
in the military that there have been several documented and shocking
cases of military babies dying in the crib from parental neglect as their
The Dopamine Cage
fathers played marathon video game sessions. The problem became
so significant that the DoD had to create a new cause of death for the
On a human level, adi
infant death certificates: "Death due to Electronic Distraction:120
otherwise rational pers
I began to realize that, like those neglectful video -game -playing
suit of their addiction
military fathers, we were all, to some degree or another, "electronically
is fairly simple to unc
distracted" not only from our lives but from the bigger picture as well.
rotransmitter dopamir
Yes, tech addiction —bad. But that VR cow helped me to realize that
When a person e