I personally don’t encounter it as much as I did before when I worked at a children’s psychiatric institution. I think this is explained by the relatively generous welfare system in Norway, where it’s relatively easy to just drop out of society. A lot of people actually seem to prefer it, just staying home gaming or whatever. As such, they have very little incentive to seek help, and when they do, it’s usually someone else in their family who sends them to us, not them seeking us out themselves. I encountered a relatively severe case about 25 years ago: myself. I remember going outside, thinking that the real world was boring compared to video games, and wondering why more people didn’t just game instead of going about in the real world where nothing interesting happened. I’m extremely curious to how all of this is going to play out. I thought the behavior I was watching unfold, with nobody being able to stay away from their phone for 30 seconds, would create some sort of society catastrophe, but so far it hasn’t turned out as bad as I thought it would. But there’s still time I guess. Buy 1990 standards. Everybody is addicted to screens today. But by today’s standard, the normality has shifted a lot, and at least society is hanging in there.