Excessive reliance on social media can be driven by changes in defense mechanisms or habituation, requiring gradual reduction and replacement with beneficial activities.

“Maybe it's being driven by the change in defense mechanisms, et cetera. Maybe it's the other way around that this person just kind of habituated to doing more and more and more and more of it. And then you would come at it in a different way of, okay, can you slowly but surely do less, replace the time with things that were good before?”