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• Being Chronically Online Didn’t Break Me — But It Didn’t Fix Me Either

  January 14, 2026

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  I spend a lot of my time online. Not in a “doomscrolling for twelve hours straight” way — though I’ve done that too — but in the quieter, more normalized way. Games. Discord. Social feeds. Videos playing while I work. Tabs always open. Something always loading. For a long time,…

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