Digital Addiction Recovery Blog
Digital addiction, digital mental health, digital betrayal, and the growing dangers of AI. Real tools for the people living it, and the professionals who refer them
Everyone reading this is hiding something.
Ashamed of what you search at 2am?
A parent who just lost your kid to a screen?
A therapist watching a client spin in a loop you can't break?
A spouse wondering if the marriage survives this?
I know. I lived it. All of it.
John Winstanley
Founder, Digital Addiction Coach
Double life for years. Terrified of getting caught. Then my son got exposed to something no kid should see. That ended the hiding.
Proof I'm not making this up:
25+
Years Sober
150,000+
People Reached
3
Recovery Systems
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The Comorbidity Data Your Screening Might Be Missing
New APA-presented data links BPD to higher rates of problematic internet use, porn use, and dating app use. What it means for intake screening, and where accountability-based coaching fits alongside c... ...more
Cross-Addiction & Relapse ,AI Addiction and Mental Health Issues &therapists & treatment centers
August 15, 2026
It's Not Stress Making You Scroll. It's Temptation.
New 14-day study of 900 adults found temptation, not stress or mood, drives problematic internet use. Here's why naming the urge beats managing the mood, and how R.A.D.D. teaches clients to do it. Aud... ...more
Cross-Addiction & Relapse ,AI Addiction and Mental Health Issues &therapists & treatment centers
August 14, 2026
When Your AI Chatbot Becomes Something You Can't Put Down
New peer-reviewed research names "problematic use of generative AI chatbots" as a clinical pattern, loss of control, emotional reliance, continued use despite harm. Here's what it means if you're lean... ...more
Cross-Addiction & Relapse ,AI Addiction and Mental Health Issues &therapists & treatment centers
August 14, 2026
Your Spouse Is "Just Talking to an App." Here's Why That Still Hurts
"It's not real, it's just a chatbot" is the weakest argument in the room, and this post explains why. If your spouse is spending hours in private, emotionally intimate conversations with an AI compani... ...more
AI Addiction and Mental Health Issues ,Cross Addiction & Relapse Prevention &family&teens
August 13, 2026
AI Is a Tool...Not a Toy. Series: The AI Weaponization (Post 1 of 3)
AI is a tool. Point it at a lonely, isolated person and it becomes something else entirely. This post breaks down what's actually happening as AI companion apps go mainstream, and why it's a bigger th... ...more
Cross Addiction & Relapse Prevention ,family&teens
August 13, 2026
You're Not Overreacting: The Real Trauma of Discovery
Discovering a partner's porn addiction is real trauma, not overreacting. Learn what betrayal trauma is and where healing actually starts. Part 1 of 3. ...more
AI Addiction and Mental Health Issues ,Pornography Addiction &family&teens
August 13, 2026
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