Brittany Luce

description of my experience?

And if not, what's a better way to describe what I'm experiencing?

Like basically the impulse to pick up my phone and check social media before I would even consciously be able to apply will in that situation.

I mean, I think you're absolutely right about that.

I don't know a person who feels normal about the internet in 2026.

Okay, so you brought up a couple different things.

types of addiction.

And it seems that social media falls under one of these categories.

So I want to understand the difference before we go any further between behavioral addiction or like substance-based addictions.

How would you describe it?

Right, right.

And like any other sort of like behavior or habit, there's like usually cues or there's context that puts you in the position to perform that behavior.

Okay, so when I spoke earlier to one of my wonderful colleagues at NPR, Shannon Bond, she mentioned that social media companies argue that there isn't a clinical diagnosis for social media addiction.

Right.

I'm reading here that S-N-U-D, social network use disorder, is essentially referring to problematic social media use.

Addicted to blogging?

Okay, so if there's not really like a clinical diagnosis for this,

I feel like there's not nothing going on.

Like what's happening to my brain when I'm doom scrolling, or even when I'm just cycling through the same social media apps on my phone over and over.

I hadn't heard that one.