I watched this video today:
The speaker describes how gamers are, as he describes, "Endorphin dependent and serotonin avoidant" His advice to gamers is to sit with their negative thoughts instead of reaching for a video game when they're feeling things like depression, anxiety, regret about procrastinating etc etc. To feel the negative emotions, because learning experiences are formed around negative emotions.
Its very obvious to me how this can be applied more broadly. Its not just video games, its social media too, but even broader than that, its anything that fixes something but does not allow for the negative emotions of that thing to settle within a person for the length of time it needs to in order for that person to form a learning experience.
You've seen this applied to the addiction with the money printer of course as I expect my readers to be Bitcoiners lol.
We can talk about other aspects of this video too if you'd like. There's a lot of disfunction in the world to the point that I feel psychiatrists need to be paid to teach a class to high schoolers on how to deal with basic life stuff, because they're being raised by parents who don't know how to deal with basic life stuff either. Maybe that has always been the case.