I find myself spending way more time than I’d like scrolling this site, Reddit, Twitter, etc. I want to limit my digital use to bare necessities, but when I’m mentally exhausted (poor sleep, after work, etc.) it’s kind of all I have the energy to do.
I feel like doing literally nothing, getting lost in my thoughts can be even MORE tiring than using the internet lol. Maybe that’s normal, or maybe it’s like my depressive/anxious brain refusing to shut off or be nice.
Anyway, if you weren’t spending your time online, how would you shut your brain off and unwind?
When I’m outside l do things with friends such as hiking/trivia, both things where phones are discouraged. Scrolling is all I can get myself to do at home, other than g*me. I don’t even watch movies or shows anymore. It’s pretty bad lol
I use an android app called “Lock Me Out”. Basically I have it lock all my fun apps after 10pm, and YouTube after 1 hour of use. It requires a password to break, and I made my partner the password holder. This helped me a lot.
a never ending list of things that need to be repaired or projects i haven’t finished. if my hands are greasy or dirty it makes pulling out my phone harder.
I’ve tried using some different apps that lock my youtube or reddit off after a certain point but honestly if I want to use them enough I’ll just log in on another device or whatever.
Something I have found helps is just making my browsing experience shittier and shittier until it’s annoying more than fun.
For example I just logged myself off reddit and changed my password to something I immediately forgot . Now when I go to reddit it’s the shitty default subreddits and the awful default UI. The first 50 posts are all either about Ukraine or just videos of poor people fighting in McDonald’s. Now I hate it enough to never go there again for more than about 2 minutes.
Use a redirect extension and set reddit and twitter to something that frequently doesn’t work, libreddit and teddit both break quite a lot. I also trained myself to ask if I really want to do what I’m doing or if I’d rather do my hobbies, that helped me cut bad video games a lot. Sometimes I’ll have a video playing in the background and that’s enough to satiate whatever in my brain likes dumb shit. In my experience energy is absolutely a prerequisite though, if I’m tired then it just doesn’t really matter what I do.
