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The Gen Z Perspective

Social Media is Rewiring the Human Brain w/ Dr. Steven Hassan PhD

The Gen Z Perspective

Dash Dobrofsky

Politics, News, Society & Culture

3.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Steven Hassan PhD joins Dash to discuss the ways in which social media use may be altering our brain chemistry, explains how to combat social media addiction, and talks about the potential consequences that modern technology has on both our mental health and society. Dr. Steven Hassan is an author and mental health professional who has helped thousands of individuals recover from undue influence and mind-control cults. He is the author of multiple books on mind control, and is the host of the Influence Continuum Podcast. To check out his latest work and upcoming seminars, visit his website: https://freedomofmind.com/

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0:00.0

On today's episode, I am joined by a doctor and cult expert who has helped thousands

0:08.3

of individuals recover from undue influence and mind control.

0:12.9

He goes into detail about the ways in which social media use may be altering our brain

0:17.5

chemistry, explains how to combat digital addiction, and discusses the potential consequences

0:23.2

that modern technology has on both our mental health and society.

0:27.7

So without further ado, here is my conversation with Dr. Stephen Hassan, and this is uncovering

0:34.0

the truth.

0:36.6

Dr. Hassan, I want to start out with a little bit of a curveball.

0:41.2

Before we were recording, you said that you have always been critical of cryptocurrency.

0:47.8

Now, why is that?

0:50.6

A good question.

0:52.2

So it goes back to my work with people in cults and brainwashing and mind control.

0:59.6

And as you may remember, I wrote a book that first came out in 1988 called Combating Cult

1:05.4

Mind Control.

1:07.5

And by the way, that book got updated dramatically after the internet back in 2015.

1:14.7

But an mentioning that because my original book didn't talk about multi-level marketing

1:19.6

cults or pyramid schemes, but I started hearing from endless, a lot of ex-amway people,

1:29.2

but endless multi-level marketing things.

1:33.0

And they read my book and they're like, it was a cult.

1:35.6

And then we started analyzing it by the bite model.

1:39.0

In fact, on my freedom of mind.com website, I have a number of blogs as well as a bite

1:44.3

model analysis, which stands for Behavior Control, Information Control, Thought Control

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