Are smart phones destroying our mental health?::undefined

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Industrialization and capitalism have figured largely in an intergenerational mental health crisis. But it’s so ubiquitous we think dysfunctional behavior is normal and accepable like vodka addiction in Russia.

    Social media and dysfunctional smartphone behavior is yet another cope, yet another way to tolerate a stressful live forced upon us. And it’s probably less harmful than other coping methods such as drinking or domestic violence.

      • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1 year ago

        Pretty bad but in the early 20th century it was infamously bad.

        The Soviet union illustrated how booze is also the opiate of the miserables when the economy is dire. I can’t say if alcoholism is or was less dire in the States, but both are on the same page finally that alcoholism is a problem to be reduced (despite an both states liking the taxes from the booze market.)