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Breaking Up (and Making Up) with Your Phone

Chasing Life

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Is Social Media Addiction a Psychiatric Disorder?

I don't think it's beyond the realm of possibility at all to say that in the future, you will have things such as social media addiction as actually a psychiatric disorder. I find it hard to say that most of us interact with social media is out of a genuine need for really anything. It's really more of a desire for stimulation, a desire to avoid anxiety, to self-soothe.

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