This story was originally published on Passionfruit.
Dr. Alok Kanojia is a 39-year-old Harvard-trained psychiatrist and CEO of his own successful life-coaching company, Healthy Gamer. But to almost a million YouTube subscribers and over 600,000 Twitch followers, he’s “Dr. K,” the host of HealthyGamerGG, a mental health platform he designed to “help the internet generation succeed.”
Kanojia’s company and platform are informed by the belief that there is not enough understanding about video game addiction or internet culture in psychiatry. Through his almost daily YouTube videos and Twitch streams, he tackles what he sees as the biggest mental health issues facing the internet generation with an unlikely source of wisdom for a culture steeped in modernity—the ascetic practices of monks living in an Ashram in Southern India.
