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It was mentioned as a collection of essays, including one titled 'My Anxiety', where the author discussed her personal experience with internet addiction and how it's related to her anxieties.
Euler recently published a collection of essays called No Judgment. One of the pieces is titled My Anxiety.
— Episode: 602. Is Screen Time as Poisonous as We T...
Episode: 602. Is Screen Time as Poisonous as We Think?
It was mentioned as a collection of essays, including one titled 'My Anxiety', where the author discussed her personal experience with internet addiction and how it's related to her anxieties.
Euler recently published a collection of essays called No Judgment. One of the pieces is titled My Anxiety.
Episode: 602. Is Screen Time as Poisonous as We Think?
Lauren Oyler discussed her own struggles with internet addiction, comparing it to other addictions like smoking, and reflected on how anxiety can be exacerbated by social media.
Over the last seven or eight years, I have struggled with what I am quite comfortable calling an Internet addiction.
I have met great friends on social media. I've gotten boyfriends on social media, but at the same time, I do strongly feel that it can produce an actual addiction like a straightforward addiction, like a drug addiction.
It's the same sort of thought process about like compulsively wanting to either look at Twitter or like smoke a cigarette.
I think anxiety does create a barrier around actually doing things you're sitting in worrying about and sitting and looking at your phone is just kind of externalizing this worrying feeling, right?
I get anxious that I'll become depressed and depressed that I'm so anxious.