Mihail Pautovmedic, IC Fundeni · Doctor Mihail - Medic specialist în chirurgie generală, Educator de sănătate

Tu cât timp petreci zilnic pe rețelele de socializare? Ai încercat să îți setezi limite?

16 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In this YouTube monologue, the speaker highlights how the widespread, normalized use of social media and digital media has begun to be recognized as a potential diagnosable addiction, particularly among young people. He describes a subset of individuals who become compulsively attached to the internet and devices, leading to severe lifestyle disruptions: loss of sleep, lack of physical activity, disengagement from school, and heightened mental‑health issues such as depression, anxiety, and even suicidal thoughts. The speaker draws a parallel between the phenomenology of substance‑use disorders and this emerging digital‑media addiction, emphasizing the urgency of acknowledging and addressing the problem.

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And I think consumption of social media and digital media more broadly is a good example of a behavior that we've broadly normalized in our society, and we are only now beginning to recognize can actually be a diagnosable addiction that a subset of individuals— and mostly we're worried about kids— becomes compulsively engaged with the internet, with social media, and other forms of digital media, to the point where they're not sleeping, they're not exercising their bodies, they're not going to school or actively participating in school when they go there. They're getting more depressed, more anxious, in some cases suicidal. So the entire phenomenology that we see with drug and alcohol addiction, we now are seeing with a subset of individuals, including young people, on their devices.