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The first thing Ed Turner thought of when he woke up every morning was to swipe right on every woman who appeared on his screen.
Although he deleted the dating apps during his first long-term relationship in 2021, he could only think about returning to the world of right-wing.
Turner first downloaded the app in 2015 when he was 18, and his problems with dating apps started almost immediately after downloading them.
He talked to a lot of women at the same time, usually without having the intention of going on a date, and his preoccupation was mostly with the question of whether he was getting confirmation that he was desirable - meaning that what bothered Turner was mainly if someone didn't answer him, or wouldn't send him a message on Bumble.
According to him, such a situation could have crushed him mentally.
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"I would get hi when I would get a lot of matches with women I found attractive, but it would always be followed by a crash because it wasn't sustainable," Turner said.
At one point Turner discovered that he was suffering from borderline personality disorder and depression, and not getting the responses from women made his condition worse.
At his peak, he had Tinder, Bumble, and Hinge on his phone, and he would talk to 10 women at once and go on a date once a week.
Despite the dates, he rarely had fun, admitting that he went out with them to make sure they kept talking to him.
"I didn't want to meet - I just wanted to be answered"/ShutterStock
Turner said the apps were like 'window shopping - he would swipe right on every woman he saw, and later, once there was a match, he would decide if he really liked them.
The average person spends about 55 minutes a day scrolling through dating apps, according to a survey by Inharmonious, but Turner admitted he spends up to three hours a day swiping, even paying for monthly subscriptions that would allow him unlimited swiping.
His therapist said the dating apps were making his problems worse and told him to stop using them,
but every time he tried, he would last a month before downloading them again.
It was a death loop - the more he used the apps, the more he lost his ability to socialize in the real world and fell into bouts of depression that lasted months at a time
even after a year of treatment, he says he still has trouble getting off the apps, however, he has stopped swiping right for now On every woman he sees, just to make sure he doesn't miss a single one.
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