Title: Social Media Addiction is just as addictive as drugs or alcohol - MedClique
Headings: Social Media Addiction is just as addictive as drugs or alcohol
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Social Media Addiction is just as addictive as drugs or alcohol
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Content: Research has shown that social media addiction produces a surge in dopamine due to the reward center part of our brain that gets activated with each like, comment, thumbs up, and retweet that is facilitated. Each time our reward center gets activated and dopamine gets released, the behavior becomes reinforced and the brain can leave you wanting more and more, and feeling addicted. Eventually, it will take more of that stimulus to activate the same level of dopamine and addiction persists. This affects your cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and psychological well-being. For instance, you may get a feeling of Ahhh, when you logged in to your social media profile. A sigh of relief, isn’t it? However, feelings of distress with or without physiological symptoms (fidgety, increase in heart rate, tearfulness, for example) when not engaging in social media. Trending
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When someone is addicted, he/she may notice an immediate return to old behavior and consequential impairments suddenly if resumed to social media. A 2018 study found that teens who spend 5 hours per day using their phones were almost twice as likely to exhibit depressive symptoms than counterparts who dedicated only 1 hour to their phones.