Sept. 12, 2025 - Epoch Times
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| Kids through the screen are only getting dopamine. | |
| They're not getting a hormone called oxytocin. | |
| And it's so it's what is what are what the screens are replacing. | |
| And so oxytocin is um you only get it through physical touch or eye contact in real life. | |
| It's it's all centered around a real life relationship. | |
| So when kids are interacting with their peers through the screens, they're not getting oxytocin. | |
| And so we're seeing a loneliness epidemic because you would think, oh, kids are more connected than ever, but they're not forming real deep friendships. | |
| The connections online are very shallow and they're based on superficial things like likes or followers, but they're not getting that oxytocin. | |
| So there's also this question of what kids are being deprived of when they're when real life is being substituted by the screens. | |
| And then the last thing I'll say is it's not just an opportunity cost of time spent. | |
| I think again, parents think, okay, well, just 15 minutes a day, because we do want them doing other things like going outside and reading books or riding their bikes. | |
| But the opportunity cost is not just time, it's also their tastes, like their appetites for things. | |
| And so um uh scientists addiction scientists explain that this is a process called desensitization, that their brains become used to this artificially high level of dopamine released by the s these notifications, these kind of features of the screens, and they become desensitized to pleasures in the real world. | |
| And so they actually find like going on a bike ride or reading a book to be very mundane, to be very boring and dull by comparison. |
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