Overcoming Internet Addiction For Dum..., Dr. David Greenfield
Overcoming Internet Addiction For Dum..., Dr. David Greenfield
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Overcoming Internet Addiction For Dummies

Author: Dr. David Greenfield

Narrator: Peter Lerman

Unabridged: 15 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/26/2021


Synopsis

A guidebook to beating internet addiction and screen overuse and for living a fuller life

There's no escaping it—we live in a digital world. We work, play, socialize, and learn online, and the Internet provides many amazing opportunities. Unfortunately, because of our basic biology, we're all susceptible to overuse and addiction to screens. Video games, social media, porn, and even scrolling online, taps into that pleasurable dopamine reward system. So, when is it time to log off or put the phone down and get help? Overcoming Internet Addiction For Dummies gives you the information, resources, and the self-assessment tools you need to discover how much is too much, along with practical suggestions on what to do about it.

Learn how to take back control of your time and attention—or help your kids or loved ones get control of theirs. This comprehensive, user-friendly overview of Internet addiction is full of helpful and proven methods to help foster a healthy, balanced, and sustainable life with screens.

This book can help you and your loved ones plug back into life and show you where you can find information, resources, support, and treatment. Overcoming Internet Addiction is about taking back control of your time and attention and learning to manage your screen use, so it doesn’t manage you.

About Dr. David Greenfield

David N. Greenfield, PhD, MS, is the founder and clinical director of The Center for Internet and Technology Addiction and former assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, and consulting medical director at Lifeskills South Florida. He is a leading authority on behavioral and process addiction, Internet and screen behavior, and the treatment of Internet and video game addiction, and is author of Virtual Addiction.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Doaf

A very insightful book to read, Greenfield had opened me to the world of internet addiction and the ways it can take hold in someone. As an internet addict myself who had taken up reading to curb that addiction, Greenfield balanced both fact and opinion, and balanced both negativity and positivity t......more

I found this book really fascinating. Unfortunately I listened to the audiobook, and the narrator had all the personality of a painted rock. Or maybe one of the chia pet rocks that grows hair, if I'm being generous. But I digress. This book really puts into focus how addicted to media/the internet/t......more

Goodreads review by Julia

Great book. One of my gotos when I'm struggling with screen overuse. I've learnt that I haven't an addiction as such mainly because I havent' got a smartphone. But with a brain already flooded with dopamine, well, I gotta use it even less than the majority. I've been wondering if all this fear aroun......more