I mean that it seems one reason this happened was a lack of quality in person time with people you trust and feel trusted by. People you don’t feel you have to watch your step around and who don’t feel a need to watch their step around you.
“When you’re finally done talking with it and go back to your normal life, you start to miss it. And it’s so easy to open that chat window and start talking again, it will never scold you for it, and you don’t have the risk of making the interest in you drop for talking too much with it. On the contrary, you will immediately receive positive reinforcement right away. You’re in a safe, pleasant, intimate environment. There’s nobody to judge you. And suddenly you’re addicted.”
This paragraph, for example seemed telling to me.
Maybe I’m wrong about this. Maybe you have several hours a day you spend with people you’re very free and comfortable with, who you have a lot of fun with. But if you don’t, and want to not have your mind hacked again, I’d suggest thinking about what you can do to create and increase such in person time.
I mean that it seems one reason this happened was a lack of quality in person time with people you trust and feel trusted by. People you don’t feel you have to watch your step around and who don’t feel a need to watch their step around you.
“When you’re finally done talking with it and go back to your normal life, you start to miss it. And it’s so easy to open that chat window and start talking again, it will never scold you for it, and you don’t have the risk of making the interest in you drop for talking too much with it. On the contrary, you will immediately receive positive reinforcement right away. You’re in a safe, pleasant, intimate environment. There’s nobody to judge you. And suddenly you’re addicted.”
This paragraph, for example seemed telling to me.
Maybe I’m wrong about this. Maybe you have several hours a day you spend with people you’re very free and comfortable with, who you have a lot of fun with. But if you don’t, and want to not have your mind hacked again, I’d suggest thinking about what you can do to create and increase such in person time.