I wrote this article at the request of another reader.

I'm no therapist, but I suspect that there's no purely intellectual solution for someone with an emotional problem. Emotions and attitudes are stronger than abstract ideas. Our ideas typically express who we are in our guts. So how do we fix our guts when they lead us astray? Maybe we'd need to train ourselves to form new habits? Try new pastimes?

I can't image a Medium article or two changing any reader for the better. Birds of a feather flock together, so we mainly reinforce who we already are by the choices we make in consuming content.

The point is that I wouldn't be looking for a solution to your personal problems in social media or anywhere else on the internet. If anything, these media make our personal problems worse. Even if you find a community of likeminded people, say on Discord or Twitch or somewhere, you'd only be interacting with your fellows at a superficial level, not in person.

All of this internet use is contrary to how we evolved to interact, so it exacerbates our First World problems rather than solving them. This is why I have little hope for the fragile Millennials.