New delhi: The explosion of short form content like Instagram Reels, YouTube shorts and tiktok is very influential, but these apps are enginered to keep you to there. Imagine you go on instagram just for a minute, but it’s been two hours the time you realized, this is called Dopamine Loop. Dopamine is a chemical in your brain that gives you the feeling of reward and desire of wanting somebing again, creating a highly addictive reward loop.

This is what make you feel good after eating your favorite food or having large number of likes on a post. It does not feel harmful in starting but this system is hacked by short videos. The flood of fast dopamine spikes is received by the brain, because your brain gets used to fast effortless reward. It stops caring about long term goals, even school feels boring, the feeling of unmotivated, unfocused, and emotionally flat is constant.

Short Form Content in Longer Duration Leads to Several Psychological Shifts: Like-Shrinking Attention Spans: The Brain, Trained by 15-to-SECOND Clips, Struggles to Mainten Focus On Longery, Complex Tasks. Students Report Difential Concentraling on Studies, and Professionals Find It Harder to Engage With In-DePth Work. Increased Impulsivity: A Generalized Sense of Restless Can Result from a Persistent Desire for Something New When Short-For For Forms Information is not activated with.

This could Worsen conditions like Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (AdHD); Some Indian Research Points to a Potential Link Between The Increase in Adhd Diagnoses Among Children and Adolesments and Increased Short-Combine Consumption. Addictive behavior: the unpredent nature of the “Next Best Video” Creates a Mental Addiction that frequent results in “Doomscrolling” – The Blind Consumption of Content for Protongeds of Timen, Even, Even, Even When it interferes with sleep or everyday duties.

India has a large youth population, and the internet is rapidly expanding; The issues that short videos create for mental health are a significant concert here. To deal with the mental health effects of short-form content, we need to act in Several Ways. Promoting Digital Literacy: Educating User, Particular Laneeses, On Conception of Critical Media Promoting Mindful Consumption: Like Setting Screen Time Limits, Taking Regular Digital Breaks, Taking Regular Digital Breaks, and Staying With what we watch instalad of just scrolling aimlessly. It is important to remumber that even the best things in life can turn toxic when taken with limits, so it is important to set limit.