Men's Health Week 2023
All this week (12-18 June) is Men's Health Week, taking a look at the internet and the effects it has on men's mental health.
Men's Health Forum states:
The iphone is a dopamine-delivery device that is always to hand. Dopamine is one of the key chemical messenger in your brain. It creates feelings of pleasure and reward and plays a role in concentration, memory and what we find interesting.
Every single app you use on it knows this full well and is designed to keep you using it. The potential for addiction is obvious. Even an 'addiction' to a pretty benign app is going to cost us time and the attention we could have devoted to more meaningful things. But what about when it starts costing money, relationships, work… ?
