The one thing that unifies all addictions? Emotional coping. So any substance will kind of mellow you out or maybe activate you, right? Start make help you feel good. But other kinds of behavioral addictions like technology addictions, they dull our emotional circuitry. It doesn't make the emotions go away. We just lose sight of it. And as we lose sight ofIt, it starts to act in other dimensions of our life. The effects on the brain are absolutely there. We just aren't aware of them.