Digital Madness Written by Nicholas Kardaras Narrated by Jonathan...
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Not yet listened to the book, will add short review when I have done so. This might not be the best book but it's the one I could purchase and was available in my region.
I have been struggling on my video entertainment detox challenge for months now because I can't seem to stop watching youtube, reels, and many other things that I say I will. Dropping gaming was easiest but reels and especially specific youtube content has been a nightmare and I even failed my latest challenge on 17th Oct 2026.
So, this time, I am, reluctantly reading up on it instead of just brute forcing my way to getting rid of all video entertainment with books like these.
Check about my own struggles on ni6hant[dot]com → Digital Health
P.S: Please give me compliments, I am starving for compliments.
- ni6hant[dot]com
From the author of the provocative and influential Glow Kids, Digital Madness explores how we’ve become mad for our devices as our devices our driving us mad, as revolutionary research reveals technology's damaging effect on mental illness and suicide rates—and offers a way out.
Dr. Nicholas Kardaras is at the forefront of psychologists sounding the alarm about the impact of excessive technology on younger brains. In Glow Kids, he described what screen time does to children, calling it “digital heroin”. Now, in Digital Madness, Dr. Kardaras turns his attention to our teens and young adults and looks at the mental health impact of tech addiction and corrosive social media.
In Digital Madness, Dr. Kardaras answers the question of why young people’s mental health is deteriorating as we become a more technologically advanced society. While enthralled with shiny devices and immersed in Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat, our young people are struggling with record rates of depression, loneliness, anxiety, overdoses and suicide. What’s driving this mental health epidemic? Our immersion in toxic social media has created polarizing extremes of emotion and addictive dependency, while also acting as a toxic "digital social contagion”, spreading a variety of psychiatric disorders.
The algorithm-fueled polarity of social media also shapes the brain's architecture into inherently pathological and reactive "black and white" thinking—toxic for politics and society, but also symptomatic of several mental disorders. Digital Madness also examines how the profit-driven titans of Big Tech have created our unhealthy tech-dependent lifestyle: sedentary, screen-staring, addicted, depressed, isolated and empty—all in the pursuit of increased engagement, data mining and monetization.
But there is a solution. Dr. Kardaras offers a path out of our crisis, using examples from classical philosophy that encourage resilience, critical thinking and the pursuit of sanity-sustaining purpose in people’s lives. Digital Madness is a crucial audiobook for parents, educators, therapists, public health professionals, and policymakers who are searching for ways to restore our young people’s mental and physical health.
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press
Release Date
13-09-22
Language
English
Format
Unabridged Audiobook
Length
11 hrs and 14 mins
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Categories
Health & Wellness