Ctrl Alt Recovery Blogs
The Comorbidity Data Your Screening Might Be Missing
by: John WinstanleyPublished on: 15/08/2026New 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.
It's Not Stress Making You Scroll. It's Temptation.
by: John WinstanleyPublished on: 14/08/2026New 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
When Your AI Chatbot Becomes Something You Can't Put Down
by: John WinstanleyPublished on: 14/08/2026New 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.
Your Spouse Is "Just Talking to an App." Here's Why That Still Hurts
by: John WinstanleyPublished on: 13/08/2026"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 companion, the fact that it isn't human doesn't change wh
