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 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....
by Nathan Driskell, MA, LPC | Jul 7, 2026 | Internet Addiction
The problem usually isn’t discipline itself. It’s the area of your life you’ve been avoiding. An honest look at pleasure, purpose, and the reps that change things. I want to start by telling you something true about me: I sometimes live for the...
by Nathan Driskell, MA, LPC | Jul 2, 2026 | Autism, Internet Addiction
The screen was doing a job. Here’s how to find out which one, and replace it with something that holds. If you’ve already worked out whether your child’s screen use is a healthy special interest or something that has tipped past it, you’ve done the harder part....
Thirty Days Will Not Cure You
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But They’re Fine at School: The Hidden Cost of a High-Masking Teen
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