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451- Addictive Technology and Its Impact on Teen Brains

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The Symptoms of Behavior Addiction

The first thing we can understand as a backdrop of a behavior addiction is kind of this broad category that can cover any type of behavior. A behavior addiction falls into, there's some symptoms around that and screen use fit into that category. The first one is they cannot stop the activity at hand. Maybe it's social media or it's playing a game. They cannot stop that activity even if they try. Their emotions and their behaviors are not able to be controlled. That's another symptom of an addiction to behavior. Cravings can be also a part of it. For a substance, there can be a craving, alcohol or drugs. There can be cravings for the activity athand. I

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