Taylor Lorenz4d ago
"Technology, such as video games or social media, simply doesn’t influence dopamine receptors the way illicit substances do." https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/07/28/addiction_fiction_dopamine_is_not_why_kids_love_tiktok_1124276.html
Addiction Fiction: Dopamine Is Not Why Kids Love TikTok

Nowadays, it seems we can be addicted to anything – not just alcohol and drugs, but pornography, random Internet browsing, video games, and smartphones. Academic research papers have investigate

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Show threadLisa the Rue4d ago

@taylorlorenz

Good info. According to the DSM, I am dangerously addicted to WORK. 9/9 yes.

Do you think about WORK when not doing WORK? YES
Do you feel bad (sad, anxious) when unable to do WORK? YES
Do you find yourself spending more time/money on WORK? YES
Do you notice you’ve kept doing WORK even when you meant to stop or cut back? YES
Have you given up other hobbies/activities to do WORK? YES

Show threadLisa the Rue4d ago
Have you continued to do WORK despite it causing obvious problems (i.e., health, work, family commitments)? YES
Have you deceived others about the time you’ve spent doing WORK? YES
Do you find yourself doing WORK to relieve negative moods or stress? YES
Have you experienced the loss of a job/school/relationship because of WORK? YES
Show threadLisa the Rue

"male perpetrators reliably describe [their abuses as] a fetish. This was Dominique Pelicot’s self-diagnosis, and it is, tellingly, Christian Ulmen’s too. Both of these men even reached for the language of addiction." --Kate Manne

... Why treating obsession as an addiction is sometimes an evasion of responsibility

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