by Nathan Driskell, MA, LPC | Aug 26, 2026 | Internet Addiction
And any program that promises otherwise is selling you something. I want to open with the least marketable sentence I have ever written about my own work: thirty days will not cure your screen addiction. I am more than twenty years out from the game that nearly cost...
by Nathan Driskell, MA, LPC | Aug 19, 2026 | Autism, Internet Addiction
The bot isn’t competing with human friendship on quality. It’s competing on effort — and on effort it wins every time. You noticed it a few weeks ago. Your teenager is on their phone the way they have always been on their phone — except now they are...
by Nathan Driskell, MA, LPC | Jul 21, 2026 | Autism
The report card says he’s doing well. The evenings say something else. Both are true — and the gap between them is the story. He Seems Fine at School — So Why Does He Fall Apart at Home? You’ve had the conversation with the teacher. He’s polite. He participates. No...
by Nathan Driskell, MA, LPC | Jul 16, 2026 | Internet Addiction
The urge will pass whether you feed it or not. That single fact is the whole intervention. The Urge Is a Wave, Not a Verdict On Tuesday I wrote about the reach — the way your hand finds the phone before you have decided anything at all. Today I want to talk about what...
by Nathan Driskell, MA, LPC | Jul 14, 2026 | Internet Addiction
Your hand moves before you decide to. Here is what happens in that gap — and why willpower keeps losing the argument. What Actually Happens in the Moment Before You Pick Up the Phone “I was standing in my kitchen waiting for coffee to brew. Ninety seconds....
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What to Do When the Urge Hits — and Why “Just Don’t” Never Works
Why You Reach for the Phone the Moment You’re Bored