> Just one of the wild, reference-free claims [1] the article makes. Who are these legions of people? Mental health professionals might have started encounteri

> Just one of the wild, reference-free claims [1] the article makes. Who are these legions of people? Mental health professionals might have started encountering this kind of person at the end of their attempts of acting this way, and then started talking about it with each other. Other patients are probably reference the misconstrued influencer articles about "dopamine fasting" in therapy sessions. They can't really tell you real numbers because it would break mental health privacy laws. Hell they might of wrote this mostly to show patients as a reference material. Also the article doesn't make any assertions about the amount of people doing it (your "legions"), just that some people are.