{"id":51737,"date":"2015-09-22T17:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T17:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/independent_social_media_rehab_is_a_24_7_texting_helpline_really_the_best_m\/"},"modified":"2015-09-22T17:00:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T17:00:39","slug":"independent_social_media_rehab_is_a_24_7_texting_helpline_really_the_best_m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51737","title":{"rendered":"(Independent) Social media &#39;rehab&#39;: Is a 24\/7 texting helpline really the best method?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media has created dependency issues; research has proven it. Academic studies have linked apps such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to symptoms of depression, anxiety and general dissatisfaction.<\/p>\n<p>Therapy website Talkspace has a solution: a new 12-week plan to address social-media dependency. That&#8217;s right, exchange texts with a real therapist to talk through your dependence \u201d\u201c not &#8220;addiction,&#8221; mind you \u201d\u201c to your phone. Created in 2012, the Talkspace app offers text-based therapy provided by 200 therapists to its current 150,000 registered users. But unlike texting a friend, a parent or a significant other, on the other end is a therapist. It&#8217;s the gig economy, but for therapists.<\/p>\n<p>The launch includes an installation in New York&#8217;s Flatiron District, where passersby are encouraged to look in a mirror and use the hashtag #reflectreality.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/health-and-families\/features\/social-media-rehab-is-a-247-texting-helpline-really-the-best-method-10511772.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media has created dependency issues; research has proven it. Academic studies have linked apps such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to symptoms of depression, anxiety and general dissatisfaction. Therapy website Talkspace has a solution: a new 12-week plan to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51737\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,433,175,94,168,104,133,177,129,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-social-networking","category-anthropology","category-blogging-the-internet","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-history","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}