Anna Lembke

With repeated exposure over time, we essentially enter a chronic dopamine deficit state, which is akin to clinical depression.

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, we can verifiably show that human connections stimulate dopamine release, which is how they are reinforcing, and anything that stimulates dopamine in the brain's reward pathway has the potential to be addictive.

When people go back to using( social media), often just realizing how addicted they've become is motivation to use differently.

It's important to say that the ways in which these technologies allow us to be social online is very powerful and can do very good.

As a society, we need to establish digital etiquette and tech-free spaces, where we intentionally leave our phones at home and really make an effort to be present in the moment in real life with each other.