Posted on Jan 18, 2024
The Silent Epidemic Eating Away Americans’ Minds
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Excessive use of screens has become an epidemic silently eroding lives with little resistance. Gallup’s 2012 survey found that around 60 percent of young adults admit to spending too much of their time on the internet; a subsequent survey estimated that 83 percent of smartphone users say they keep their phone near them “almost all the time during their waking hours.”
Screens can overstimulate our brains, resulting in a perpetual, highly stressed, fight-or-flight state. This then makes us prone to meltdowns, depression, and anxiety when even minor changes in the environment occur.
Screens can overstimulate our brains, resulting in a perpetual, highly stressed, fight-or-flight state. This then makes us prone to meltdowns, depression, and anxiety when even minor changes in the environment occur.
The Silent Epidemic Eating Away Americans’ Minds
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Stress
Cell Phones
Internet
Social Media
Mental Health
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You'll have to forgive me if I call BS on this. Ask yourself if you really feel "highly stressed"? Is it because of 'screen time'? Or is it because of events around you, or occurring to you? Ask yourself if you've noticed this with your family and friends too.
Do you really feel like you're in "flight or fight" mode all the time? A majority of us here have been in situations where we had to use that response. Do you really feel that way? Does your family and friends?
To me, this is just another scare tale.
Do you really feel like you're in "flight or fight" mode all the time? A majority of us here have been in situations where we had to use that response. Do you really feel that way? Does your family and friends?
To me, this is just another scare tale.
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Lt Col Charlie Brown
I do have some clients who could use a "dopamine fast" (i.e. no screens for at least a couple of weeks)
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Lt Col Charlie Brown I think cell phones has done considerable personal interaction/communication damage between people.
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Cpl Vic Burk
PO2 (Join to see) You should see these kids walking down the hallways between classes. They have no idea of their surroundings of what is going on. It's a wonder there aren't more head on collisions than I have already seen!
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