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Communication & Cognition

Social Diabetes: Is Digital Connection Making Us Sick?

Jason Shimiaie
14 April 2025
5 min
PME 2

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Connection is as essential to our psychological survival as glucose is to our physical body. Social diabetes is the overconsumption of social connectedness through digital platforms, leading to emotional dysregulation and an ever-widening social divide.
READ: Social Diabetes: Is Digital Connection Making Us Sick?

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  • Psychology Today: High factual reporting
  • Collections | The Runway (airforce.gov.au)
  • RAAF RUNWAY: RATIONALE, GUIDELINES, LEARNING OUTCOMES, ETC. 
 

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