02918cam a2200313 i 4500 605443731 TxAuBib 20221006120000.0 220601s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022016371 9781250278494 HRD 28.99 125027849X HRD 28.99 TxAuBib rda Kardaras, Nicholas, 1964- Digital madness [BOOK] : how social media is driving our mental health crisis-and how to restore our sanity / Nicholas Kardaras, Ph.D.. First Edition. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2022. 272 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Dr. Nicholas Kardaras is at the forefront of psychologists 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 and looks at the mental health impact of tech addiction and corrosive social media. In Digital Madness, Dr. Kardaras answers the question of why young people’s mental health is deteriorating as we become a more technologically advanced society. While enthralled with shiny devices and immersed in Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat, our young people are struggling with record rates of depression, loneliness, anxiety, overdoses and suicide. What’s driving this mental health epidemic? Our immersion in toxic social media has created polarizing extremes of emotion and addictive dependency, while also acting as a toxic "digital social contagion”, spreading a variety of psychiatric disorders. The algorithm-fueled polarity of social media also shapes the brain's architecture into inherently pathological and reactive "black and white" thinking―toxic for politics and society, but also symptomatic of several mental disorders. Digital Madness also examines how the profit-driven titans of Big Tech have created our unhealthy tech-dependent lifestyle: sedentary, screen-staring, addicted, depressed, isolated and empty―all in the pursuit of increased engagement, data mining and monetization. But there is a solution. Dr. Kardaras offers a path out of our crisis, using examples from classical philosophy that encourage resilience, critical thinking and the pursuit of sanity-sustaining purpose in people’s lives. Provided by publisher. 20221006. Social media Psychological aspects. Information technology Psychological aspects. Information technology Social aspects. Well-being.