If you hear someone argue that a 'common sense' approach is needed for treating addiction, give them this to read. The old approaches to dealing with substance dependence weren't common sense.
#addiction #mentalhealth #treatment #drugs #healthcare
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/12/24/Involuntary-Care-Need-Rethink/
Is the Online Safety Act helping porn addicts recover?
Left the house to walk the dog this evening and forgot my phone, for about 5 minutes I was nervous, what if something happens? Then I remembered I've lived a lot of my life without a phone and for most of history people never had them. The dependency was disturbing, I should do it more.
🌅 Personal Share: #Sobriety—The Unmerited #Gift
For a long time, I couldn’t make it 24 hours.
My 11 years of #recovery haven’t been a straight line. I’ve relapsed after 3 years, after 1 year… I’ve had stretches where I felt completely hopeless—fighting both #addiction and clinical #depression.
➡️If you’re struggling this #holiday season, please don’t wait.
You are not alone.
📞 988 is the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (#Veterans, press 1)
🏳️🌈 #LGBTQ+ youth: Call The Trevor Project at 1-866-488-7386
Just went for a walk around the local lake and forest on a gloriously sunny day.
Then the sad spectacle of a young couple, both with their noses in a smartphone, smoking, whilst their poor kid just sat on a bench, wishing someone would show some interest in him.
Smartphone addiction is a terrible and largely unrecognised affliction; it should be seen as something akin to drug abuse.
@laurenslater oh pétard j’avais pas vu ta réponse mdrrr ça va ça va y a trop de trucs à dire pour que ca rentre tout la mais je glow up de jour en jour avec ce nouvel appart j’ai realise que l addiction c’était juste la couverture d une enorme dépression j’étais dans un dénis total, depuis que j’ai compris ça ça va très vite je prends de + en + soin de moi de jout en jour #addiction=depression #revelation
#addiction 🤔 Is the right oil for #recovery truly about constant vigilance, or something deeper they're grappling with? Info https://scrollbots.com
4 concrete strategies to cure emotional dependence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFSPjOZ794c
I detest today's "AI" / LLMs [1] for many reasons, primarily ethical and moral. At the same time, I am fascinated by the misuse of said generative LLMs.
In particular, I have seen a number of essays recently describing people misusing LLM output or relying on the LLM to produce most or all of an #assignment of some sort - even when they know they mustn't use the LLM in this fashion.
Most of these have been in the context of #student use of LLMs to write assignments, even when they have been warned not to. One particularly egregious example was described by a university #professor, where he created an assignment in which it was easy to tell if the submitted work had been created with an LLM or not. A majority of the students - I don't recall the exact proportion, but it was something like 75%, a supermajority - used LLM. He discussed this with the class, and had those who had generated the assignment with LLM write a short essay (or apologia) -- and then found that something like half of them had used LLM to do *that* assigned work.
Some professors have described their students as having their #thinking, #language, and #analysis #skills atrophy to the point of inability to do even basic work. It seems to me that it is like #addiction, in that they keep doing it despite knowing it is (a) forbidden, (b) easily detected, and (c) self-destructive.
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[1] LLMs are in no way Artificial Intelligence. Calling them "AI" is a category error.
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The irony of posting this on the Fediverse is not lost on me. 😉
I usually like to take a few weeks off a each year at least. But, a less distracting internet (and cell phone) would be a good thing.
It's a shame our monkey brains won't buy it, and make it a viable option, when we have all that temptation.
Guest Essay
"What Happened When My Yale Students Gave Up Their Phones for Four Weeks"
#NYTimes #GiftedArticle #Gift #Luddite #Addiction #InternetAddiction #SocialMediaAddiction #Sabbatical #TechSabbatical
#caffeine addiction be like:
"Oh darn I'm almost out of caffeine. I better use the last of my caffeine so I have enough energy to go get more caffeine,".
My #productivity when #ChatGPT is down or slow. This is the definition of #addiction
Photo by moein moradi: https://www.pexels.com/photo/photograph-of-a-burning-fire-672636/
Miss you Maya!
She was always there even when I was at rock bottom, wish she was still around to see me now...sober. 🥲😿
#cat #cats #caturday #catsofmastodon #quitdrinking #addiction
"You Were Here. You Mattered.” Community Unites to Honour Lives Lost to Homelessness
The English began exploring a century before, but on #ThisDayInHistory in 1606 three ships (Discovery, Godspeed, Susan Constant) set sail for America. The occupants founded #Jamestown, #Virginia, a first permanent settlement from which #addiction, #slavery, & #genocide spread.
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#MetalInjection
JANE'S ADDICTION Has 'Resolved Their Differences' After 2024 Brawl Ended The Band
#JANE #ADDICTION #Has #ResolvedTheirDifferences #MetalInjection #metal #music
Trying to find a meaningful existence in the modern day is a difficult one, but I think I finally figured out mine:
The #usa has a massive #mentalhealth and #addiction problem, and here is sit with all this random knowledge about #neuroscience #medicine and mental health myself due to being extremely curious, and having a bunch of problems myself.
I want to be on the front line of trying to solve those problems.
It'll be endless, and a hard job.
People have to try though.
