271: Social Media Addiction with Dr. Nicholas Kardaras

Soberful

Veronica Valli & Chip Somers

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Social media is addiction by design. Dr. Nicholas Kardaras joins Veronica to talk about social media addiction and how it was deliberately designed to hijack our dopamine system and get us hooked. It's digital candy and we are enticed into displaying our idealised internal lives. Dr. Kardaras explains how predatory algorithms work and how they are responsible for creating a mental health crisis for young people.

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0:00.0	I dreamt that you were twisting through seven suns of gold and the gypsy was insisting
0:10.2	that story must be told I came two in the morning but I took it as a warning that you might be a treasure.
0:22.4	I could touch but never hold.
0:27.6	Hi, everybody.
0:28.6	Welcome back to the Soaphaful podcast.
0:30.6	I'm joined today by Dr. Kadaris.
0:33.2	Welcome.
0:34.0	Great to be here.
0:34.6	Thank you.
0:35.4	Dr. Kadaris is an Ivy League educated psychologist and bestselling author. And he is with us here. Thank you. Dr. Kedaris is an Ivy League educated psychologist and
0:38.4	bestselling author. And he is with us today because I get so many people who want to come on
0:43.7	the podcast and your subject area just sounded really interesting. And it's social media
0:48.7	addiction. So this is something that didn't even exist 20 years ago. So let's start. Like, how did you get into this area? Yeah. Well, I'm in personal recovery myself. I'm in good old fashion recovery. I'm 23 years clean and sober in my own personal story. So I became... Congratulations. I'm a... You're a 2000 baby. I'm a 2000 baby too. Oh, see, there you go. Yeah. We have the same... We got through the millennium and went, ugh. Yeah, well, so part of my recovery journey is I went back to school. I went to graduate school and got my PhD in psychology. And I started really working as an addiction specialist treating good old
1:28.3	fashion drug and alcohol addiction.
1:30.3	And I became one of the first people about 10, 12 years ago.
1:34.3	I started realizing that there was a new addiction in the social landscape that was beginning
1:40.3	to swallow up people.
1:42.3	And initially I was working with adolescents and young adults
1:45.0	who were just glued to their phone devices. And I was noticing the same telltale signs of
1:51.2	addictive behavior with digital devices that we were seeing with any other kind of substance
1:56.7	addiction, dysregulation when they were away from it, just all the diagnostic features of
2:03.7	traditional addiction.
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