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Do You Think There's a Correlation Between Social Media Addiction and Online Addiction?
Do you think there's a correlation between people who have lots and lots of followers and their potential degree of addiction? Well, i can tell you that a lot of my patients who have struggled with addiction to drugs and alcohol struggle with a on line media. The propensity to get addicted displays itself wherever people go. This idea of cross addiction. Once you try to give up one substance, you're a very high likelihood of getting addicted to another substance or behaviour. And the people who make them know exactly what will keep people engaged. They understand our motivation circuits, and they prey on them.