But seriously, fuck me man, help?
Does anyone honestly have a solution to this? This meme might as well be a direct attack on my existence.
Thanks, I think it’s really helpful to acknowledge it’s an addiction and a serious thing that isn’t really something I should put myself down for.
It’s hard for me to have the presence of mind to stop myself from reaching for the phone or laptop. It would be great if I could remember ‘you’re going to dothe thing’ right before I do the thing. I’ll go from doing nothing to being on the phone in no time flat and won’t know how I got there. Other times when I am aware of what I’m about to do, I just don’t have the will power to stop myself, thinking let me just do this before I go do what I really want to be doing.
spend some time working out what’s pushing you to act that way in the first place and how to address it
I think I know why, it’s a response to material and social conditions that I can’t really change. I used to smoke cannabis to help me get over it but really, wasting hours online is one addiction that’s been impossible for me to resolve.
Little shit like getting a watch and using a whiteboard instead of relying on the phone or PC for everything.. Try to circumvent those little loops that automatically make you want to use the device again.
It's hard though if you have adhd because that makes all of those little things a lot harder.
Yeah, i have hardcore adhd. I’m starting to buy hard copies of books and notebooks to write things down in. Thanks for the tip.
I love notebooks man, make lists of shit and doodles, transcribe anything that's actually important once I get home. Just stuff that's way more annoying to do on a phone than it should be
Find something to put you in a "flow state" instead of scrolling.
Playing a musical instrument. Reading a book. Learning a new language.
It can be anything, really, just has to take you out of the cycle of constant little dopamine hits.
“How to break up with your smartphone” is a book that changed my life. Check it out
If it really changed your life, I will definitely check it out. Thanks.
Yeah hopelessly addicted since I was a teen without realizing it. Super short attention span and emotionally numbed. Eventually went a week without any screens and my brain basically bathed itself in molly.
this may be really simple, but it helps me to just straight up leave my phone in another room. if it isn't right in front of me, I can't use it.
There are some cool Chrome extensions like StayFocusd and BlockSite which you can use to limit your browsing time. Also, there are some apps which turn your smartphone screen into greyscale, which makes it much less addictive.
you forgot "rereads his old posts and checks karma several times a day"
But I need to fix that typo in my 3-day-old comment with two upbears
We really are all out here living the same miserable fucking lives, huh? I've done maybe 20 minutes of work so far on this 10 hour shift and the entire rest of the time has been endlessly scrolling and getting absolutely zero positive feelings from it.
Every single word of this cuts like a knife to the heart. WHY AM I STUCK AND UNABLE TO MOVE
I can't decide if it's worse to sit here, smoke pot and watch a show I've watched a billion times and scroll, or if it's just as bad to remove the scrolling but nothing else.
I have self control when I'm out with my wife, or in the woods. When I'm at concerts, I try to take all the pictures in like five minutes, so I don't waste my experience. I don't really check my phone more than once at work...
All that being said, it just feels inherently wrong to scroll. I feel guilty when I do, even if I wouldn't do anything else productive.
Yet I still do, and feel this meme a little.
It's so hard for me to start a new show, but I finally made it past the part of Doctor Who that I've seen. Shows that engage me keep me off my phone
I'm gonna try doing that going into winter. I have a mental list of movies I want to check out. I'm getting burned out on the shows I watch over and over.
I had a "break some cycles" kind of realization over the last weekend, and I'm trying to keep the motivation
Content is a pacifier for babies. At least the slop we look at on here is not created by billion dollar corporations.
This is me. My job serves simply to enable other people to contribute to useless products that don't materially help anyone, and on top of that it's all mired in endless middle management bureaucracy. So I do 10 minutes of actual work every day and 7 hours 50 minutes of scrolling through social media, and then give a fair amount of money to mutual aid groups later so something productive comes out of all of this.
sounds like an okay deal to me if you have to sell off the finite hours of your life in exchange for money one way or another.
Scroll before work, scroll during work, scroll after work
This me :kitty-cri-texas:
What I've heard helps is to read a book or an actual article first thing in the morning, and resist checking social media first thing in the morning. After a while it helps build your attention span back up and it sort of deprioritizes social media in your mind. Purely anecdotal of course, but maybe worth a shot. I imagine getting a physical alarm clock so you don't need to have your phone by your bedside would help with this.
It's been hard in the last two years. The pandemic has just made me want to curl up in a ball and sleep.
I sometimes think it's only really traumatic because you can't really fucking DO anything about it. In a war I could shoot or run away but WTF do I do against a pandemic fucking everything
I didn't ask to be called out like this. Depression + (undiagnosed but pretty much certainly present) neurodivergence is a motherfucker. And when you don't have a particularly important job or accountability, it's so easy to do.
