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It's like a drug (lemmy.world)
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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 months ago

It's somewhat of a vicious cycle, too. When you do a hobby, you typically achieve stuff, whether that's inter-personal relationships, a painting you wanted to finish, or e.g. physical fitness.

These successes, as well as their knock-on effects, help to form long-term happiness. With mindless media consumption, on the other hand, the happiness stops pretty much as soon as you turn off the screen, so you have to keep going back for more, and then it also takes time away from forming long-term happiness.