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The Comorbidity Data Your Screening Might Be Missing

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 clinical treatment.

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It's Not Stress Making You Scroll. It's Temptation.

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. Audience: General Public

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When Your AI Chatbot Becomes Something You Can't Put Down

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 leaning on a chatbot instead of a person.

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