Man reveals he needed therapy for Tinder addiction: \u201cI was swiping on 500 women a day\u201d Good Faces Agency\/UnsplashA man named Ed Turner has opened up and revealed that he became addicted to swiping on women on dating apps like Tinder, which made him seek help in therapy. Online dating has changed the game, opening singles up to a bigger dating pool than ever before, with apps letting singles swipe right on other singles they find attractive and might want to get to know better. However, sometimes the options can become too much, or even addicting. A man named Ed Turner, 27, said he \u201cobsessively\u201d used dating apps to feel a \u201crush\u201d when women \u201cliked\u201d his profile, and revealed he had to seek treatment for his Tinder addiction after swiping on 500 profiles per day. Despite the endless swiping, Turner confessed he had no intention of actually meeting any of the many ladies he was swiping on or finding a girlfriend. But, he also admitted it would upset him if someone didn\u2019t message him back. Man reveals he\u2019s addicted to swiping on Tinder Speaking to the i Paper, Turner said: \u201cI 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\u2019s not sustainable. \u201cValidation from others was the only thing keeping me going.\u201d Despite his efforts, Turner said he only matched with \u201caround five percent\u201d of the women, with even fewer choosing to start a conversation with him. \u201cIf a person didn\u2019t respond to me or didn\u2019t message me in the first place it would crush me,\u201d Turner said. \u201cI 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\u2019s not sustainable.\u201d Turner eventually ended up in a relationship with a woman he met offline \u2014 but he still couldn\u2019t quit thinking about the apps. \u201cIt made me feel like a bad partner. I didn\u2019t do anything and I never talked to women while I was in that relationship but it had an effect on me,\u201d he said. \u201cThat high was gone.\u201d After the end of that relationship, Turner turned to Tinder again. He soon ended up in therapy where he was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and depression. And although he has quit the apps now, single Turner revealed he struggles to stay off them, suppressing an insatiable urge to start swiping again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Man reveals he needed therapy for Tinder addiction: \u201cI was swiping on 500 women a day\u201d Good Faces Agency\/UnsplashA man named Ed Turner has opened up and revealed that he became addicted to swiping on women on dating apps like Tinder, which made him seek help in therapy. Online dating has changed the game, opening […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}