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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..

By: Publication details: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2022.Edition: First editionDescription: 272 pages ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 125027849X
  • 9781250278494
Other title:
  • How social media is driving our mental health crisis--and how to restore our sanity
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.23/1 23/20220601
LOC classification:
  • HM742 .K37 2022
Contents:
Part I: A world gone mad. Addicted to the Matrix -- A world gone mad -- The social contagion effect -- Viral violence -- Social media and the binary trap -- Part II: Digital dystopia. The new technocracy -- Maintaining the dystopia -- God complexes and immorality -- Part III: The ancient cure -- My personal odyssey -- Beyond therapy -- The philosopher-warrior.
Summary: "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. 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." --publisher's website.
List(s) this item appears in: Mental Health
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Includes bibliographical references (page 261-272) and index.

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

"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. 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." --publisher's website.

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