Brittany Luce

Dates are organized through social media, jobs, career opportunities, etc.

How do we manage that personally?

And also, are there interventions that might help us manage that systemically?

I mean, I need to actually, I'm like fighting, I need to buy a new phone.

And I'm like, you just, you said something.

But as you were saying, like, that's a strategy that,

Okay, so these are really helpful on the individual level.

But I'm wondering about systemic interventions.

What about those?

What would that even look like?

Well, Carl, I really appreciate this conversation.

I have been feeling doom and gloom about my phone and social media addiction.

But you gave me a lot of good ways to think about this today.

I really appreciate it.

Thank you so much.

That was Carl Eric Fisher, addiction psychiatrist and author of the book, The Urge, Our History of Addiction.

This episode of It's Been a Minute was produced by Corey Antonio Rose.

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