Technology addiction has escalated over the past several years, as cell phones and apps have become more versatile, but it's become especially apparent during 2020.  And like most addictions, our tech addiction is not without consequences. While we are more digitally connected than we've ever been, we are lonelier than ever.  Deleterious tech usage has made us emotionally, physically, and relationally sick.

But there is a cure to the loneliness that technology often brings: human relationships. Personal relationships (not "likes" on social media) are just as vital to our personal health as diet and exercise.

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Resources:

• Tech usage statistics
• The Social Dilemma documentary
• Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked by Adam Alter 
• Loneliness and health: potential mechanisms
• Social support and health: a review of physiological processes potentially underlying links to disease outcomes 
• Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review 
• Social relationships, sleep quality, and interleukin-6 in aging women

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