Internet addiction harms eye and ear health by blocking connection to reality

Internet addiction harms eye and ear health by blocking connection to reality

The Epoch Insights
The Epoch Insights
2.6K Video Views·Oct 28, 2025  #mentalhealth #mind #bodyhealth

Tiffany Brannan takes a look at what can happen to a person who trades the real world for a digital one. Recent statistics show that Americans spend a startling amount of time staring at screens, absorbing media, and otherwise lost in a virtual world. Rather than making people more connected to each other, it has led to loneliness, isolation, and depression. This is all because the latest technology is a replacement for the pleasures of real life.

Two articles in the Mind & Body section of The Epoch Times talk about the impact digital media consumption can have on health and general wellbeing. One talks about the negative effects of noise-cancelling, wireless headphones, and the other describes how the greatest means of bonding with other human beings is lost when we replace eye contact with staring at a screen. Both these problems stem from blocking out reality with a virtual world. Tiffany Brannan offers some suggestions of how to join the "tech resistance" movement for a more meaningful life.
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