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#507 - Dr Julie Smith - Overcoming Stress And Anxiety
Modern Wisdom
Is It Just an Addiction or a Compulsion?
One of the things that i've refremed recently around smart pone use was from its being an addiction to its being a compulsion. And i think if i actually look at the behaviour for most people, including myself, over using your smart phone is a lot less like an addiction and a lot more like compulsive behaviour. You'd pull your phone out of your pocket thinking about it, you're already moving your fingers around the screen without even thinking to the place where you know the thing that you want, that you need to get. Now, yes, sure, perhaps the reward mechanism that's pulling that through is dopemin and but it does feel a lot morelike a compulsion.
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