Tag: social-media
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So, I was searching for books on dopamine and stumbled across Dopamine Nation by Dr Anna Lembke. Admittedly the cover graphics got me and of course all the usual Amazon praise: “Instant New York Times and Los Angeles Times bestseller…”. So I figured what the heck, it’s got colorful cover…
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+ addiction, dopamine, gay, health, life, mental-health, porn, porn addiction, Self-Therapy, single, social-media, writing+
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The irony is not lost on me…while killing my boredom one afternoon watching video after video on YouTube, the algorithms shuffled a video exclaiming “You Need to Be Bored. Here’s Why” into my feed. So I bit, and clicked on the video to give it a watch. After all, it…
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+ Arthur C. Brooks, Blogging, Boredom, Get Off the Phone, health, life, Live Life, mental health, mental-health, Put Down Your Phone, Self-Therapy, social-media, writing+
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Don’t ask me why, but I made a Snapchat account. I still think it’s stupid and pointless unless your goal is to doom scroll the lives of insignificant people you don’t know—then it’s great! So, typical social platform it takes your contacts and recommends people you know to add friends.…
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In the course of normal breakup (over)reactions, I had blocked my ex on social media even though we remained “friends” (I put that in quotes because I didn’t realize at the time friendship had an expiration date). We were still living together and civil. It seemed as though the breakup…
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The majority of mortals, Paulinus, complain bitterly of the spitefulness of Nature, because we are born for a brief span of life, because even this space that has been granted to us rushes by so speedily and so swiftly that all save a very few find life at an end…
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