Dr. Alok Kanojia

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 365: Dr. Alok Kanojia Explains How to Raise Healthy Gamers · 12 Mar 2024 podcast

And then over time, what ended up happening is as we grew in that community, and that's the majority of our community now, we get watched by about five to six million people every month, unique viewers.

Their parents started reaching out.

So it's hilarious because sometimes we would have

A kid, we do a coaching program for parents as well.

So one day I was in a call with a group of parents and then their kid walked by and they were like, wait a second, is that Dr. K on the screen?

And then the parent was like, you know who that is?

And so it was really bizarre is that we started sort of like talking to parents because they didn't know what to do.

And we were talking to their kids.

And so that's kind of what our approach is understanding really what your child is going through, understanding it from a personal lived experience standpoint, from a psychiatric standpoint, from a neuroscience standpoint, from a spiritual standpoint, and then sort of helping parents help their children through those perspectives.

Yeah, so this is where what's beautiful is when you're saying there's a lot of confusion.

There's only confusion for academics.

So psychiatrists will argue, is this an addiction?

And there's two sides of it.

And that's a very valid argument, right?

So some people that I've worked with, for example, who are experts in helping people with tech addictions really do believe that this is a symptom of a deeper problem like depression or anxiety.

I've worked with those people.

And then there are other people who sort of say that, no, this is actually an addiction.

That's the camp I fall into.

And I think at this point, the neuroscience evidence is really in favor of that, that video games and technology will act in the brain in a very similar way to a substance.

So if we look at things that we get addicted to, they basically need two qualities.

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