A British man revealed that he had to seek treatment for his addiction to Tinder after swiping 500 profiles in a day.
Ed Turner, 27, revealed that he used the dating app because of the rush he felt when women used to drop a 'like' on his profile. He actually had no intention of meeting the women or finding a girlfriend, New York Post reported.
“If a person didn’t respond to me or didn’t message me in the first place it would crush me,” Turner told i News. “I would get highs when I was getting a lot of matches with people that I found attractive but it would always be followed by a crash because it’s not sustainable.”
“Validation from others was the only thing keeping me going,” he added. Not only Tinder, Turner also had Hinge and Bumble on his phone as well. However, he only matched with five percent of the women, even less when conversation was involved.
“Since I was swiping right on everyone and fully engulfed in the ‘game.’ I lost all sense of self. Dating apps turned sex, communication and love into an actual game and distorted reality," Turner remarked. “Those apps affected my entire mood and personality."
“I could never tell you what I was really looking for. It got to the point where I was like, ‘Right I have to ask this person on a date otherwise they’re going to stop talking to me.”
“I knew eventually I’d have to talk to people about going on an actual date. When it got to that point, I was almost uninterested.”
Turner also came into a relationship with a woman he met offline, however, the apps were still on his mind. “It made me feel like a bad partner. I didn’t do anything and I never talked to women while I was in that relationship but it had an effect on me. That high was gone," he quoted further.
In therapy, Turner was diagnosed with borderline depression and personality disorder, as per New York Post.
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