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Digital madness, how social media is driving our mental health crisis - and how to restore our sanity, Nicholas Kardaras, Ph.D

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Digital madness, how social media is driving our mental health crisis - and how to restore our sanity, Nicholas Kardaras, Ph.D

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Digital madness

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bibliography

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Nicholas Kardaras, Ph.D

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how social media is driving our mental health crisis - and how to restore our sanity

Summary

"The author of the provocative and influential Glow Kids, presents evolutionary research that reveals technology's damaging effect on mental illness and suicide rates--and offers a way out. Dr. Nicholas Kardaras is at the forefront of researchers sounding the alarm about the impact of excessive technology on younger brains. In Glow Kids, he described what screen time does to children, calling it "digital heroin". Now, in Digital Madness, Dr. Kardaras turns his attention to our teens and young adults. For them, the digital world is a bubble of content you're meant to "like" or "dislike." Two choices might be considered easy, but just how detrimental is this binary thinking to mental health? From body image to politics to personal relationships to decisions, the world doesn't exist in an "up or down," "black or white," "good or bad" dynamic, and social media shouldn't either. Digital Madness explores how technology promotes sedentary isolation, polarization, rewards extremes on both sides, and has spawned a mental health and suicide pandemic from which enormous corporations profit. Dr. Kardaras offers a path out of our crisis, using examples from classical philosophy that encourage resilience, critical thinking, concentration, and other beneficial habits of mind. Digital Madness is a crucial book for parents, educators, therapists, public health professionals, and policymakers who are searching for ways to restore our young people's mental and physical health."--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

A world gone mad -- Addicted to the Matrix -- A world gone mad -- The social contagion effect -- Viral violence -- Social media and the binary trap -- Digital dystopia -- The new technocracy -- Maintaining the dystopia -- God complexes and immorality -- The ancient cure -- My personal odyssey -- Beyond therapy -- The philosopher-warrior

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How social media is driving our mental health crisis-and how to restore our sanity

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