According to studies, uncontrolled digital object use has increased by 130% in the past year. Of course, street restrictions also have an effect on this increase. However, when we observe our surroundings, you see most people with their necks bent.
Don't get me wrong, it's not because of sadness, but because he can't get his attention from his smart phone; people looking at their phones all day!
Today, around 4 billion people are active in the digital environment.
This number corresponds to half of the world's population. With the spread of social media such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Youtube, which are offered to consumers with digital transformation, our contact with digital objects has increased considerably.
It is an impulsive need for an individual to explain himself. In ancient times, people used to express themselves by writing on stones and drawing shapes. Today, this behavior goes through social media.
Digital media companies use Manipulation Based Technology by behaving very cruelly and unethically on the social media platforms they have established, and build their applications on the vulnerability of the human mind with the algorithms they produce.
With their unlimited-continuous content feature on the homepages, they ensure that our attention is constantly on the digital object. They are doing this because they need our attention.
The era is the era of attention economy. As we look at a place, they make money from our attention.
Individuals want to be appreciated and admired. They know very well our impulsive needs and form a desire to be liked.
The person who uses uncontrolled social media does not exist with a real identity, but with a false self. Maybe he is trying to repair his mental damage with this false self!
Thus, the possibility of facing emotional traumas, splits, depression and melancholy problems increases.
Also, created algorithms cause individuals to develop a type of addiction similar to gambling addiction.
The disease of this new age is Digital Addiction!
Contrary to popular belief, addiction is not a habit. is a brain disease.
Digital Addiction, which is not yet included in the diagnostic clusters in the literature, but is considered to be included in the behavioral addictions cluster in the newly published diagnostic criteria in the reference book, has become the plague of our age.
To put it briefly;
There are dopamine neurotransmitters in our brains that regulate a person's emotional responses and actions. It is secreted after activities that are enjoyable to do.
As a result of the substance or behavior to be addicted, more dopamine is released than normal. The brain, which is met with high levels of dopamine, no longer prefers the action that releases dopamine at a normal level.
Thus, the balance of dopamine in the brain is disturbed. The brain, whose reward pleasure center is destroyed, becomes addicted to the substance or action that releases high dopamine.
Digital Addiction; It is slightly different from other types of addiction in terms of its treatment.
The main goal of the treatment of an addicted person is to completely stop contact with cigarettes.
However, in the treatment of Digital Addiction, the main target is controlled digital object use.
Digital objects are in our lives and provide great convenience when we use them in a controlled manner. It is both impossible and illogical for us to isolate ourselves from digital objects anyway.
The important thing is the purpose of using digital objects. The purpose and the tool should not be displaced.
Limits should be set and control should be provided.
If we experience an unavoidable desire and willpower in the use of digital objects and social media, and we feel uneasy as a result of not being able to use them, there is a problem.
If we cannot use digital objects in a controlled manner so that they do not cause mental disorders and psychosocial dysfunctions, it has become a must to apply to a mental health professional!
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