Tinder Addiction: Man Seeks Therapy (image: unsplash/Mika Baumeister)

The excessive use of Tinder, a popular dating app, by a user resulted in seeking treatment for addiction, the New York Post reports. Ed Turner, 27, a British man, stated that he has to undergo treatment for his addiction after swiping on 500 profiles every day.

Ed Turner said that he had no plans to forge connection but was seeking validation through the use of app. He said that he would get excited when women “liked” his profile, though he had no actual plans to meet the women or find girlfriend. “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,” Ed Turner said.

Aside from Tinder, he has downloaded dating apps like Hinge and Bumble, and swiped on every profile he could. Turner said that at a time he maintained conversation with 10 women, and spent his time waiting for the women to reply. “Since I was swiping right on everyone and fully engulfed in the ‘game.’ I lost all sense of self,” he said.
“Those apps affected my entire mood and personality,” Ed Turner added. Even though he failed to hold relationship with a woman he met offline, he still could not quit thinking about the apps. After ending that relationship, Turner turned to dating app again. Ed Turner said that, he then ended up in therapy where he was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and depression, New York Post reports. Though he has quit using the apps, Turner says that even now he struggles to stay off them.