Digital Madness: How Social Media Is Driving Our Mental Health Crisis--and How to Restore Our Sanity
Sep 2022 · St. Martin's Press
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In Digital Madness, Dr. Nicholas Kardaras, author of the groundbreaking Glow Kids, explores how our devices are driving us mad as revolutionary research reveals technology's damaging effect on mental health and offers a way out.
Dr. Kardaras is at the forefront of psychologists sounding the alarm about the impact of excessive technology on younger brains. In Digital Madness, he turns his attention to our teens and young adults, examining the mental health impact of tech addiction and corrosive social media.
As we become a more technologically advanced society, young people are struggling with record rates of depression, loneliness, anxiety, overdoses, and suicide. Digital Madness reveals how our immersion in toxic social media has created polarizing extremes of emotion, addictive dependency, and a toxic "digital social contagion" spreading 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, and symptomatic of several mental disorders. Dr. Kardaras examines how the profit-driven titans of Big Tech have created our unhealthy tech-dependent lifestyle in the pursuit of increased engagement, data mining, and monetization.
But there is a solution. Using examples from classical philosophy, Dr. Kardaras offers a path out of our crisis that encourages resilience, critical thinking, and the pursuit of sanity-sustaining purpose. Digital Madness is a crucial book for parents, educators, therapists, public health professionals, and policymakers searching for ways to restore our young people's mental and physical health.
Dr. Kardaras is at the forefront of psychologists sounding the alarm about the impact of excessive technology on younger brains. In Digital Madness, he turns his attention to our teens and young adults, examining the mental health impact of tech addiction and corrosive social media.
As we become a more technologically advanced society, young people are struggling with record rates of depression, loneliness, anxiety, overdoses, and suicide. Digital Madness reveals how our immersion in toxic social media has created polarizing extremes of emotion, addictive dependency, and a toxic "digital social contagion" spreading 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, and symptomatic of several mental disorders. Dr. Kardaras examines how the profit-driven titans of Big Tech have created our unhealthy tech-dependent lifestyle in the pursuit of increased engagement, data mining, and monetization.
But there is a solution. Using examples from classical philosophy, Dr. Kardaras offers a path out of our crisis that encourages resilience, critical thinking, and the pursuit of sanity-sustaining purpose. Digital Madness is a crucial book for parents, educators, therapists, public health professionals, and policymakers searching for ways to restore our young people's mental and physical health.
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DR. NICHOLAS KARDARAS is an Ivy League educated psychologist, one of the country’s foremost addiction and mental health experts and the bestselling author of Glow Kids. A former clinical professor at Stony Brook Medicine, he’s developed treatment programs all over the country, has written for TIME Magazine, Scientific American, Salon and Psychology Today, and has appeared on Good Morning America, ABC's 20/20, CNN, the CBS Evening News, PBS, NPR, FOX & Friends and in Esquire and Vanity Fair. He lives in Sag Harbor, NY with his wife and twin sons.
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