How Much Screen Time is Too Much?

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Do you ever feel like you or your kids are spending way too much time on your phones? Have you ever caught yourself scrolling for hours on end? When so much of our lives center around our phones, it’s hard to know how much screen time is too much. For answers, Dr. Sanjay Gupta sits down with self-described “mediatrician”, Dr. Michael Rich, who co-directs the Clinic for Interactive Media Disorders at Boston Children’s Hospital. Sanjay talks with Dr. Rich about his unique approach to treating young patients with problematic media use. Also, we hear the story of one college student who got lost down a TikTok rabbit hole. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It just kind of started to really wear on me physically first, I think.
0:07.0	Because that was when I was just scrolling for hours, you know, not going to sleep.
0:13.5	I was taking hours out of my day.
0:16.0	The story I'm about to tell you will sound typical at first.
0:20.0	It's about a college student named Jerome Yankee.
0:23.0	He was pulling a lot of all-nighters.
0:26.0	But he wasn't cramming for exams.
0:29.0	He wasn't hanging out with friends.
0:31.0	It was hard to stop.
0:33.0	It was hard to say, okay, I've seen enough because there isn't enough on TikTok.
0:38.0	There's no winning on TikTok.
0:40.0	There's no end-to-point.
0:41.0	So you just keep going.
0:43.0	And going.
0:44.0	And going.
0:45.0	In many ways, it is the point of TikTok.
0:48.0	Scroll and scroll.
0:50.0	Bright into a rabbit hole.
0:53.0	I did all up half an hour, two an hour when I wake up, you know, a little bit in the free time during the day,
1:02.0	maybe during a meal, another two hours during the day, maybe averaging five to six hours a day,
1:08.0	even more if I had more free time.
1:12.0	This story did not unfold overnight.
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