Overthinking, without control, exhausts the brain, and now it is worse with the massification of cell phones, social networks and artificial intelligence. Digital intoxication is the evil of the millennium. We are getting sick collectively and we have already entered the era of emotional beggars. The digital world brought undeniable benefits, such as communication and access to information, but it caused an unprecedented disaster in the human brain, altering the dopamine and serotonin cycle and generating a dependency similar to that generated by cocaine. Take away a young person's cell phone for 24 hours and you will see that digital dependency is not a casual disorder, but a serious psychological syndrome.

Millions of children, adolescents and adults show symptoms of dissatisfaction, restlessness, intolerance to frustration, self-demand, deficit of empathy and self-control. But the most classic symptoms of this syndrome are the need for urgency (wanting everything quickly) and the aversion to boredom and loneliness, without knowing that these are fundamental for internalization and creativity. Parents should set limits on the time their children spend on digital devices and discuss with them the artificial happiness and superficial success of social media. Banning for the sake of banning creates fascination; it is an emotional disaster. The same goes for setting limits for the sake of maintaining authority. Limits must be clearly drawn, but with intelligence, without violence and, above all, with love.