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Subject:\[EXTERNAL\] Addiction with \[Podcast\] :Tech Addiction:
Digital Madness- How Social Media Is Driving Our Digital Madness: How Social
Media Is Driving Our Mental Health Crisis--and How to Restore Our Sanity
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Digital Madness: How Social Media Is Driving Our Mental Health Crisis--and How to
Restore Our Sanity.
Digital Madness: How Big Tech is Driving Our Mental Health Pandemic-and the Ancient
Prescription for Sanity
DR. NICHOLAS KARDARAS is one of the country’s foremost addiction experts. He was a
professor at Stony Brook Medicine and has developed clinical treatment programs all
over the country. He is the founder and Chief Clinical Officer of Maui Recovery in Hawaii,
Omega Recovery in Austin and the Launch House in New York. He is also a frequent
contributor to Psychology Today and FOX News, and has appeared on Good Morning
America, ABC's 20/20, CNN, the CBS Evening News, PBS, NPR and FOX & Friends.
from the author of the provocative and influential Glow Kids, Digital Madness explores
how we’ve become mad for our devices as our devices are driving us mad, as
revolutionary research reveals technology's damaging effect on mental illness and
suicide rates―and offers a way out.
Dr. Nicholas Kardaras is at the forefront of psychologists sounding the alarm about the
impact of excessive technology on younger brains. In Glow Kids, he described what
screen time does to children, calling it “digital heroin”. Now, in Digital Madness, Dr.
Kardaras turns his attention to our teens and young adults and looks at the mental
health impact of tech addiction and corrosive social media.
In Digital Madness, Dr. Kardaras answers the question of why young people’s mental
health is deteriorating as we become a more technologically advanced society. While
enthralled with shiny devices and immersed in Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Facebook and
Snapchat, our young people are struggling with record rates of depression, loneliness,
anxiety, overdoses and suicide. What’s driving this mental health epidemic? Our
immersion in toxic social media has created polarizing extremes of emotion and
addictive dependency, while also acting as a toxic "digital social contagion”, spreading a
variety of psychiatric disorders.
The algorithm-fueled polarity of social media also shapes the brain's architecture into
inherently pathological and reactive "black and white" thinking―toxic for politics and
society, but also symptomatic of several mental disorders. Digital Madness also
examines how the profit-driven titans of Big Tech have created our unhealthy tech-
dependent lifestyle: sedentary, screen-staring, addicted, depressed, isolated and
empty―all in the pursuit of increased engagement, data mining and monetization.
But there is a solution. Dr. Kardaras offers a path out of our crisis, using examples from
classical philosophy that encourage resilience, critical thinking and the pursuit of sanity-
sustaining purpose in people’s lives. Digital Madness is a crucial book for parents,
educators, therapists, public health professionals, and policymakers who are searching
for ways to restore our young people’s mental and physical health.
Dr. Kardaras - Dr. Nicholas Kardaras (drkardaras.com)
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47 # Digital Madness: How Social Media Is Driving Our Mental Health
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driving-our-mental-health-cr
48 # Digital Addiction with Dr. Nicholas Kardaras \[Podcast\]
Digital Addiction with Dr. Nicholas Kardaras \[Podcast\] (socialemotionalpaws.com)
49 # Tech Addiction: Digital Madness- How Social Media Is Driving
Our Tech Addiction: Digital Madness- How Social Media Is Driving Our
(socialemotionalpaws.com)
50 # Digital addiction expert warns smartphone addiction is harder to treat than heroin
Digital addiction expert warns smartphone addiction is harder to treat than heroin
(yahoo.com)
51 # (1) Digital Addiction with Dr. Nicholas Kardaras \[Podcast\] - Search (bing.com)
52 # Addiction psychologist warns Dr. Phil audience smartphone addiction ‘more
challenging to treat than heroin’
Dr. Nicholas Kardaras said that an 'ounce of prevention' is worth a 'pound of cure'
when it comes to digital addiction
Addiction psychologist warns Dr. Phil audience smartphone addiction ‘more challenging
to treat than heroin’ | Fox News
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Craig A Durfey
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