Create ipotetical emercency scenarios in your mind and elaborate possible solutions and way to handle that. Then look about your solution and think about what could go well and what could go wrong.
It's not about cognitive abilities, it's about having availability for possible strategies in your mind.
It's not social media, but the general mercification of every aspect of human life that we are seeing under a last-stage capitlistic society.
Social media is "just" one of the main communication medium and that's why you see it like an ideological source.
Fight against that, as much as you can.
You should spend your time with things you find personally valuable for yourself and the people you love, do not use productivity as a worth criteria!
There are plenty of way to have an ad free experience and you can probably support creators 1000x more if you give your money's subscription to them through patron or similar.
They're bereft of sense if you consider the goal of a good user experience.
If you set the goal as to have your user addicted and stay on the platform as long as possible, they're perfectly logical decision.
Honestly, I feel scared because it's actually something that is being exported here.
I feel so sorry for you Americans, but I don't blame you. I don't think this is something you can address by simply voting, the same way we here can't do nothing by voting in order to stop the privatization of everything.
This are scary times.
You shouldn't compare psychological disorder to organic disease.
There is a reason they're called "disorder" and not "disease".
Organic disease have a very specific definition and very specifics criteria, so you can actually have a formal diagnosis process.
It's epistemologically impossible to do so for psychological disorder, which have more broad definitions based completely over statistical norms.
P.s. while this is a very important distinction, this doesn't mean that psychological health is less important or that is not important to seek help and therapy for psychological suffering.
If you don't count multiplayer and buy only physical copies of your game, you will be able to play for as long the hardware will function.
You can also hack your switch and keep a copy of every game you may need somewhere in an hard-drive too.
You can make your own demo by pirating the game and then buy it if you find it good to be played.
There's absolutely no negative points for anyone, so fuck the legality of it. :)