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The Dr. Phil Podcast

Unraveling the Impact on Mental Health, Societal Values, and Decision-Making in a Tech-Driven World

The Dr. Phil Podcast

Dr. Phil McGraw

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

4.413.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Phil unravels the impact on mental health, societal values, and decision-making as we navigate online. His guests include Dr. Nicholas Kardaras, Imran Ahmed, Dan Ariely, and James McGibney. Learn about the vulnerability of individuals, particularly children, to harmful digital content and explore how algorithms prioritize engagement, leading to the amplification of hate content. Then Dr. Phil dives into the superficial nature of online dating platforms, where looks play a predominant role, the prevalence of everyday citizens getting hacked, and the motivations behind such cyberattacks. You don’t want to miss this! For more information: https://drphilintheblanks.com Advertise with us! https://www.advertisecast.com/PhilintheBlanks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0

They're just clicking and clicking and clicking and clicking and it's them and this content.

0:34.4

They're so vulnerable. It is chilling.

0:37.7

It horrifies me the idea of a child being alone exposed to this content slowly being dragged into an illness. They are

0:44.9

fatal diseases. Dr. Nicholas Carderith, he is a PhD, LCSW, R, he is an expert on addiction involving technology.

1:08.7

He is the CEO and founder of Omega Recovery in Austin and Mary Recovery in Hawaii.

1:16.7

I call it Digital Crack, you say it's like Digital Heroin.

1:21.1

What's going on with this and when did it really kick in in your opinion and

1:25.5

start changing the way kids are evolving and developing?

1:30.3

Well I think we've been, you know, we've been in the digital age now for the last 10 to 15 to 20 years, and I think, I think one of the problems that happened, Dr. Phil, was that you and I, our generation, sort of, we were asleep at the switch when this new generation

1:46.5

of technology came along. We just started with smaller TV sets. And so we conflated modern

1:51.8

screen time with TV and most of us grew up on TV. So we let the

1:55.0

let the Fox into the chicken coop without really fully appreciating

1:59.4

some of these impacts that were different

2:01.9

with interactive.

2:03.7

And that's the key part, this interactive and immersive media

2:07.1

is not our daddy's television from yesterday year

2:10.3

where we would sit 10 feet across the room in the living room and we would be visual.

2:15.9

We weren't participants in the experience.

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