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Taming the chimaera-hydra: disconnecting from the net to fortify our mental health

Taming the chimaera-hydra: disconnecting from the net to fortify our mental health
Taming the chimaera-hydra: disconnecting from the net to fortify our mental health

In our ever digitalising society, our engagement with the online world has significant potential to have a negative impact on our mental health. Although the roles of public health and psychiatry are debated, clinicians are in a strategic position to assess usage and intervene, to prevent harms from problematic engagement with the internet.

Lifestyle, digitalisation, policy, problematic usage of the internet, public health
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Ioannidis, Konstantinos
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Fineberg, Naomi A.
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Chamberlain, Sam
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Ioannidis, Konstantinos
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Fineberg, Naomi A.
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Chamberlain, Sam
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Ioannidis, Konstantinos, Fineberg, Naomi A. and Chamberlain, Sam (2024) Taming the chimaera-hydra: disconnecting from the net to fortify our mental health. The British Journal of Psychiatry. (doi:10.1192/bjp.2024.159).

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Abstract

In our ever digitalising society, our engagement with the online world has significant potential to have a negative impact on our mental health. Although the roles of public health and psychiatry are debated, clinicians are in a strategic position to assess usage and intervene, to prevent harms from problematic engagement with the internet.

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Accepted/In Press date: 21 July 2024
e-pub ahead of print date: 25 September 2024
Keywords: Lifestyle, digitalisation, policy, problematic usage of the internet, public health
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Local EPrints ID: 494837
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/494837
DOI: doi:10.1192/bjp.2024.159
ISSN: 0007-1250
PURE UUID: 84ebe376-e54d-416c-b913-f87658ceb407
ORCID for Sam Chamberlain: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-7014-8121

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Date deposited: 17 Oct 2024 16:34
Last modified: 25 Mar 2025 05:01

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Author: Konstantinos Ioannidis
Author: Naomi A. Fineberg
Author: Sam Chamberlain ORCID iD

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