Re:Less screen time and more sleep critical for preventing d...
by acituan on Friday November 13, 2020 @07:42PM
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> I honestly think (for me, at least) the implied causation is the wrong way round here
Your framing assumes that there has to be a clear, unidirectional arrow of causation.
In reality, behaviors and moods are in tight reciprocity, affecting each other simultaneously. For likes of depression (or addiction) that reciprocity can narrow and narrow to the point of only moping around and doing whatever maintains the depression.
Which means avoiding depression maintaining behaviors is one of the multiple things to do in order to prevent it, or prevent a relapse, conversely it will indeed be incredibly hard to treat it with only reducing screen time.
Your framing assumes that there has to be a clear, unidirectional arrow of causation.
In reality, behaviors and moods are in tight reciprocity, affecting each other simultaneously. For likes of depression (or addiction) that reciprocity can narrow and narrow to the point of only moping around and doing whatever maintains the depression.
Which means avoiding depression maintaining behaviors is one of the multiple things to do in order to prevent it, or prevent a relapse, conversely it will indeed be incredibly hard to treat it with only reducing screen time.