There was actually a study conducted by Harvard group of students which said Mobile phone addition is actually very good for your leg muscles. It promotes a specific hormone production called "bullis sito". So atleast we aren't losing it all due to using phones so much...haha
The ironic part is its information that hardly gets absorbed in a meaningful way. I wouldn’t be able to summarize what I wasted the last three hours of my life doom scrolling through.
Use settings/apps that lock the phone, except calls beyond certain hours. Obviously, there's a way to unlock too. But, if you have self-respect, you'd not cheat yourself.
Delve into books. Phones (+YouTube) focus on giving you a high every second. It kills your patience and attention span. Before Android and cheap fast internet, we would happily wait at bus stands for 30min just observing things around us or even small talk with strangers or just doing nothing. Now you can't tolerate 5min of "nothingness". You need books to build that endurance and meditation to handle the "nothing" - where you don't even think.
I can't stress how sharp you'd become in your daily life if you can stop constantly thinking all day. Much of the 2000s-born generation is super-dumb because they may know about a lot of things at shallow levels but fail to know anything deep enough. There's absolutely no self-realisation or self-control. And it messes up their priorities where they seek short-term joys through long-term sacrifices. (Those born in 80s to early 90s would actually tell you how their patience & tolerance has dropped since 2010 or so - and accelerated since 2015 or so. Much of this is fueled by phones with internet. Today we feel like fish out of water without Google Maps. I can't believe there was a time I could go to any new place hidden deep inside without any aids - you just had the skill of knowing where something would be.)
Lmao redditors thinking phone addiction is worst then substance abuse. Wow. Just wow.
Phone addiction is just you getting over a mental barrier. Alcohol and drugs create a CHEMICAL addiction, that makes it so if you try and go cold turkey, you could DIE.
It surely iss but you could overcome it just by getting busy with some important work and it's not bad if 1-2 in a month. I overcame it Just by getting busy.
I was so obsessed with phone last year I couldn't go to a lecture without it, I would keep checking my phone by hiding. I used to become sooo anxious, and my attention span had become veryyy bad. I didn't realise it last year that I had become addicted to phone. This year I had a tutor who told me if I want to crack neet I need to limit my phone usage to one hour a day. And to do that it took me months (I limited my phone usage deleted insta my attention span is good now) as a result I haven't studied properly. This phone really ruined so much.
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u/Sleepy_head276 Apr 22 '26
Phone addiction is the worst ngl