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Overcoming Internet Addiction for Dummies

By: Dr. David Greenfield
Narrated by: Peter Lerman
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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.

©2021 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (P)2021 Tantor

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Good info, awful narration.

The narrator sounded like an AI script reader. The information was good and very helpful for someone who is addicted to screens, like me.

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This book is PURE MAGIC!

This book is such a RUDE AWAKENING for me. Having a 7-year old and a 10-year old with phones that their mom gave to them, I see the impact that screens are having on them.

Thanks to this powerful book I am now clear that screen over-use and screen addiction is VERY VERY real, and deeply damaging.

This is a MUST READ BOOK for all of us that have phones and work on PCs and have children with phones.

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the robot reading the story is hard to listen to

I.can't.do.it.i.am.not.a.robot.this.is.how.the.audio.book.sounds.

it's obviously an ai that is reading this book but the technology isn't quite there yet

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