Can CBT treat compulsive behavior? |NIRC

Added: 2026-05-06

[00:00:00]And I think if you [music] ever clocked how many times you pick up your phone in a day, it's embarrassing to go, "What did I even need to see that many times?"

[00:00:06]But it's [music] the compulsion. And so, what we do know about process addictions or behavioral compulsive behavioral patterns, methods [music] including cognitive behavioral therapy are really effective in starting to shift some of [music] the compulsive part of that behavior. It's about the impulse control part more than it is what's on the [music] other end. We know a lot about the dopamine systems in the brain and the reward patterns in the brain. And so, these [music] types of interventions that work in those sorts of scenarios could very easily be applied with social media.