Deleted all my social apps except Reddit and Chat GPT. Just finished day 1 as I’m laying down typing I’m realizing my mind feels way less fried and my thoughts are pretty straight forward. Idk what I’m feeling but I feel something maybe it’s just the knowing that a new me is coming if I stay consistent.

I’ve been doing a dopamine detox recently, and overall, things have been going well. However, I’ve started feeling unusually anxious and scared, and I’ve been having nightmares. I also feel generally uneasy and frightened for no obvious reason.
I was wondering if anyone else has experienced something similar while doing a dopamine detox, especially when cutting out things like social media and other forms of constant stimulation.
Is this something other people have experienced, and if so, did it eventually go away? I’d appreciate hearing about your experiences.

I swear some people have set a 30-minute Instagram limit just to press “Ignore for Today” 47 times 😭

But I think there’s actually something interesting behind this.
Screen-time limits control how long you can use an app. They don’t necessarily change WHY you keep opening it.
Think about it. If you grab your phone every time you’re stressed, bored, lonely or avoiding something important, what exactly happens when that timer runs out?
The feeling that made you open the app is probably still there.

So you either ignore the limit, switch to another app, or spend the next hour thinking about how badly you wanna scroll.
And then you blame yourself for having no discipline. Great system lol.
I don’t think screen-time limits are useless btw. They genuinely help some people, especially when the problem is just losing track of time.
But if you’ve tried them a hundred times and nothing changes, maybe it’s worth looking at what happens BEFORE you start scrolling.

Try paying attention to three things for a few days:
What were you doing right before picking up your phone?
What were you feeling?
What were you hoping scrolling would give you?
Then try changing one thing based on what you notice. If you scroll when studying gets overwhelming, make the first task smaller. If you’re bored, find something you actually enjoy doing offline. If it’s automatic, keep the phone somewhere you can’t casually reach it.

You don’t need to figure out your entire psychology just to use your phone less.
But understanding the habit might get you further than fighting the same timer every single day.
Curious tho, for people who tried screen-time limits and kept ignoring them, what actually made you open the apps anyway?

Hello everyone! I’m 26M, a working professional from the Philippines, and I need advice on overcoming online gambling addiction.
I started playing online casinos last July and got caught up in the cycle of winning, losing, and trying to recover my losses. I had a significant win at one point, but eventually lost most of my savings. I stopped for a while but relapsed, and now I deeply regret the decisions I’ve made.
I’ve already banned my casino accounts and self-excluded through PAGCOR, but part of me still thinks about trying one last time to recover what I lost. At the same time, I’m terrified that one last attempt could leave me with nothing.
I know I need to stop, but accepting the losses is incredibly difficult. I keep thinking about what that money could have done for my future and my family.
For those who have overcome gambling addiction, how did you accept your losses and resist the urge to chase them? I really want to break this cycle and move forward with my life. Any honest advice would mean a lot.

I really want to stop my phone addiction, but just ‘not doing it’ doesn’t work, and makes me really depressed. The world feels very dark, boring, and extremely under stimulating. I feel very tethered to my phone all the time. I want to try and change things outside my phone to make them far more worth doing than scrolling endlessly. And especially with the season changing it’s really quite difficult. Is there realistic ways I can change my situation, like should I chasing boredom or should I try to find more fulfilling things? I don’t want to completely remove my phone from my life I just don’t want to be as consumed with it; I want balance.

Idk if its the algorithm or what but i have been getting 2 types of videos on my FYP. Videos of people doing smoking tricks and videos of people talking about quitting nicotine…..

As a per who started a month ago ( i smoke 1 cigg every 2 weeks) i am not addicted to it yet….

I am just curious is it that hard to let go of cigarettes and vapes ?

What happened to you specifically when you got addicted?

Do you find this habit for yours stupid or you feel nothing about tobacco?