Why You Can’t Stop Scrolling (End-Stage Screen Addiction)

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Learn more from Dr. K in his Guide To Mental Health: https://bit.ly/42cXEmm (180+ videos on Trauma, ADHD, Meditation, Anxiety, and Depression.) ▼ Timestamps ▼ ──────────── 00:00 - Introduction 06:52 - Terminal Boredom 10:01 - Decreased Emotional Awareness 13:18 - A lack of willpower 17:59 - Giving up is a learned behaviour 23:39 - Depleting your motivation 28:10 - Decay of motivational drive 30:27 - How to budget your daily dopamine 33:58 - Executive Dysfunction 38:16 - How screens hijack your reward circuitry 39:52 - Impulse control ──────────── DISCLAIMER Healthy Gamer is an online community and resource platform for gamers and their families. It does not provide medical services or professional counselling, and it is not a substitute for professional medical care. Our coaches are peer coaches, not professionally trained experts, and they cannot provide medical service. If you or a loved one are experiencing an emergency, please call your nation's emergency telephone number. All guests of Healthy Gamer are informed of the public, non-medical nature of the content and have expressly agreed to share their story. Learn more about the research that goes into making our videos: https://explore.healthygamer.gg/citations Find us on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and more here: https://bit.ly/4qiCXR7