Built to Break: Addiction, Identity and the Digital Self in Young Adults

Built to Break: Addiction, Identity, and the Digital Self in Young AdultsWhy are young adults breaking down at record rates — and why do substances become the solution? Drawing from the groundbreaking book The Unseen Architecture by Richard Landis, this episode reframes addiction not as a moral failure but as a structural emergency — an attempt to stabilize an identity that was never built to withstand the pressures of modern life and social media. Integrating original research on Constructive Interactionism, masculine anxiety, and the latest SAMHSA data, this episode reveals how rigid boundaries in young men and permeable boundaries in young women create different but equally devastating pathways to substance use — and how the 12 Steps may work precisely because they rebuild the architecture from the inside out.Get the book: The Unseen Architecture on AmazonGet the BookExplore the full framework in The Unseen Architecture by Richard Landis: Available on Amazon