August 10, 2026
“A high total on a social-media addiction scale tells you how much of the scale a young person endorsed, not which part of it, and only one part of it travels with depression and anxiety.”
“A doctor too depleted to open an app is not a low-risk doctor; in this sample she is the one with the worst depression, anxiety and insomnia scores of anyone.”
“The outcome this trial registered in advance, money lost, did not move; what moved was money deposited, a measure that appears nowhere in the registration.”
“The state did not define addiction; it defined a threshold, 20 percent of user time on a personalised feed.”
“Ninety-three patients in five years is not a prevalence estimate; it is a description of what behavioural addiction looks like once it is severe enough to reach a psychiatrist.”
“For the presentations NICE lists – self-harm, depression, ADHD, cocaine use, homelessness, disclosed debt – asking about gambling stops being a matter of clinical judgement and becomes a stated instruction.”