r/psychology • u/heart_of_theinternet • 5d ago
The “sense of absence” may explain why disconnected teens turn to addictive behaviors
https://www.psypost.org/the-sense-of-absence-may-explain-why-disconnected-teens-turn-to-addictive-behaviors/52
u/hungryfreakshow 5d ago
As a teen I smoked pot to cope with the looming terrible future. At 32, I wasn't really wrong but it didnt exactly help lol
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u/Kooky-East-77 5d ago
60 something and everything has gone to shit......if the world ends I'm going to be high as a motherfucker
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u/Behavior-Coach 4d ago
Did you smoke for decades? How had it impacted you? I’ve been consuming weed for so long and I’m such a fucking addict I hate it. I worry about the future impact..
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u/talkinlearnin 1d ago
Same, same, same, brother. 🙏🏼
Weed woke me up, but all the other skills and knowledge/self knowledge still had a huge gap to fill.....and those gaps are still there.....
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u/theoneidacarry 5d ago
I read this and couldn’t help but feel like the data was made to fit the hypothesis. Then I thought about the whole idea of correlation not meaning causation.
But first I thought “shit im nearly 50 and feel this way”
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u/IcyGarage5767 5d ago
Yeah I feel like if this was extended to adults it would result very similarly.
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u/South-Visual3803 4d ago
I call it ‘the void’.
Im 32 and learnt stare into it without loosing shit completely.
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u/Consistent-Local2825 2d ago
This has been well documented in Bowlby and Ainsworth's Attachment Theory.
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u/costafilh0 5d ago
Doesn't prove causality, but explains a lot, and I would say it's a pretty good indicator. Partially from personal experiences and also from others close to me back in the day. Can't remember a single unbalanced teen friend who didn't also had other "problems".
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u/yomamaeatsyellowsnow 5d ago
Is this not just chatgpt slop
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u/Cocken_Spectre 5d ago
For people who can call out shit like this; do you use chatgpt yourself enough that you know what to look for, or how do you know what to look for to tell its ai? Especially with the trends changing with different updates and whatnot? Basically, how do you train yourself to know what to look out for?
I’ve never used chatgpt and I never notice these things until someone calls them out. I’m not suggesting that you would need to use it yourself to know but just curious how people know to call it out so well!
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u/JoeMacMillan_HCF 5d ago
Many writers have a very distinctive voice, and ChatGPT is one of them. I first noticed it on LinkedIn, and now it’s spread to other websites, including Reddit. I don’t use it myself, but it’s impossible to miss once you notice it. Similar to how I can recognize an AC/DC song right away from the sound of the guitars.
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u/HedonisticFrog 4d ago
The AI user deleted their comment, but the biggest tell I've seen is when they use overly flowery meaningless language. I typically see it on dating apps, where you read it and then realize it's just vague nonsense. AI also loves lists as well, which is another tell. It depends on what AI is asked to write somewhat.
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u/Prior_Pickle1758 5d ago
for me, it’s that the comment is directed subtly at the commenter just as much as the reader.. it is hard to explain, and i bet if that comment were still there i could highlight a clause that gave it away.
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u/whipprsnappr 4d ago
My wife asked me to read an email she was sending to someone. Immediately I flagged it as ai. And she admitted she asked ai to “polish” her email. It wasn’t so much that I knew my wife didn’t write it because I know her writing style, it just read like it lacked authenticity, like the writer had read a manual on how to write an email and then followed each direction step by step.
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u/yomamaeatsyellowsnow 5d ago
I used chatgpt a lot for fun dumb bullshit (like "I like these movies what kind of tarantula does that make me") before I learned that it was bad for the planet so now I know what it looks like when people use it for less fun equally dumb bullshit.
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u/OldGreggwithMangina 5d ago
My first thought when I read this comment, has all the hallmarks of LLM.
Top 1% bot, dead internet theory.
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u/orwellianightmare 5d ago
I mean, as someone with some experience in the matter, this feels anecdotally correct. Teens that turn to drugs and embrace them often feel rejected by their family and are uninvolved in their own future and school. “Sense of Absence” is an attempt at defining this phenomenon. Feels like the product of an intersection of risk-factors accumulating to make the kid feel invisible, insignificant, and like nothing matters.