How to Recognize Social Media Addiction Early
Video Transcript
Steven Gacovino – Personal Injury Attorney – Suffolk County (Long Island), NY
And here you have the scientific body still asking the question where we as lay people recognize it so clearly, boots on the ground. We see it every single day. We see people that are just staring at their phone and scrolling and scrolling and being lost in that world and being disconnected from people. They’re not interacting with family. They’re not interacting with friends. They’ve created their own weird little personal reality that really is anything but reality. It’s something that’s causing them to do harm to themselves. It’s causing mental illness. It’s causing anxiety, depression, and suicides. We know that these things are happening.
As far as social media addiction is concerned, we use it as just sort of a common term, but there is no, there is no medical diagnosis of social media addiction, at least not that I know of yet. Now, I’ve heard therapists talk about it. I’ve spoken to many psychiatrists and psychologists about it. And they say, yes, it does exist, but officially, you can’t look up a code for social media addiction. So maybe we’re starting to trend in that direction where it’s going to be accepted by the broader base of the scientific body. But I’m sure that there are many studies that need to be done. I don’t know the technicalities of actually coming up with a medical code for social media addiction. But I’m sure that they have to go through studies and then it needs to be peer reviewed and it needs to be accepted by those in the psychiatric world and the psychology world that yes, there is an actual physical addiction that they can measure and here’s how.
