anarkyinducer

Hi, thanks for doing this ama first of all!

I've seen several studies posted on reddit that seem to suggest that digital media in general is driving a slew of dopamine release based addictions - from pornography to shopping to gambling, etc... The thing that all of these seem to have in common with context switching as well as physical addictions such as binge eating is novelty.

My question is are there any known avenues of treatment for general "novelty" addiction?

Thanks for responding! It's actually the answer I was expecting but hoping not to hear :)

I think the really insidious thing about such an addiction is that there isn't really a single thing to abstain from. If you go cold turkey on one thing, the "withdrawal" is basically to start doing something else compulsively and restarting the dopamine cycle all over again...