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?
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.