After ten years or more living with the most popular ones, such as Instagram or TikTok, the alarms about non-responsible consumption of social networks (RRSS) have been shot in Spain. Of particular concern is the younger population, adolescence, but the reality is that addiction is worrying regardless of age. Psychiatrist Marián Rojas reveals the keys to why we can’t stop looking at the screen.
According to a recent report by UNICEF Spain98.5 percent of adolescents are registered on a social network, while 83.5 percent are registered on more than three social networks. This means that practically all individuals in this age group fall into daily contact with various applications. The aforementioned report warns that in 33 percent of cases such consumption is problematic.
To overcome this situation on the part of fathers and mothers, the most recommended tool is to use the parental control with respect to said appsyes ok schools and institutes have been forced in recent times to control device usage to the distractions they caused in the classroom. Likewise, the Government is preparing an organic law of protection of minors in digital environments.
Dopamine is the key
The psychiatrist Marián Rojas Estapé addresses the new challenges of the hyperdigitized society that we are having to live in his book Recover your mind, recapture your life. But he also shares his reflections and advice through his Instagram account. In one of his recent videos he reveals What four factors explain that RR. H.H. have such extreme control about our lives.
According to this expert, the germ of the emotional dependence generated by social networks is in the release of dopamine that causes. It is about a neurotransmitter that affects, among other functions of the body, the state of mindeither. Pleasurable activities are those that generate dopamineand this achieves the infinite content of the different apps that we consume every day.
How is addiction activated?
Rojas Estapé explains on his Instagram account that There are four factors that affect this dynamic that seems uncontrollable: that of looking at minutes and minutes, hours and hours, at the screen of a mobile phone, pending a “infinite scroll”:
- The brain relates emotions to the screenwith the consumption of ‘apps’, and dopamine is released, related to pleasurable activity.
- The algorithms of the ‘apps’ identify what we likethe content we search for the most, identifies our profile.
- The brain reward system is strengthened: “There will always be something you like,” this expert emphasizes.
- The content we access is constantso “your prefrontal cortex doesn’t have time to say ‘come on, stop, get out of here.'” The “infinite scroll” is, according to the psychiatrist, what is behind the attention deficit that both the minor and adult population is complaining about.
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