Haidt: Children mostly overcome phone and video game withdrawal within a week
Jonathan Haidt · Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview · Jul 10, 2024 · at 1:02:03
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt discusses youth digital addiction and the timeframe required for screen detox during an interview on The All-In Podcast.
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“You take away the video games, you take away the phones, and for, you know, Anna Lemke says it's, you know, two or three weeks to overcome, ah, withdrawal symptoms for, especially for more serious drugs, but in my experience, it's more like, it's like a few days, it's, you know, the first three or four days are really bad, but by a week, actually, they're mostly over it.”
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