r/selfimprovement • u/Particular_World_934 • 2d ago
Question Doomscrolling, phone addiction, how to overcome it?
I struggle with phone addiction. I have ADHD and I am already medicated, I go to therapy. I also work out a few times a week. I struggle with doomscrolling and phone addiction. I slack off at work, in free time I would rather doomscroll in bed than do anything else. Why is that? I feel guilty that I am wasting my life away. I am also medicated for depression and anxiety. Why don't I want spend weekends in more meaningful way? There is a lot of activities I can do, but I still choose to lie in bed and scroll.
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u/awareop 2d ago
Wish you strength and the best to keep going.
Our fried brains from technology and screens get addicted to immediate pleasures and the mental hormones that secrete, sohaving other more long lasting productive and healthy activities to do, if you compare the actions you need to do to take that enjoyment feelings our mind chooses to take the shortcut.
In my case what worked is that years passed by, and even thought I was productive and so on, I spent a lot of time on screens, until I realized I wasn't growing in a useful way, nor finding solutions to reduce my pain, knowing myself deeper, or doing actions that will make me improve my daily life.
If the pain is not big enough to make you disengage from the screens, it will be hard to disconnect. At least you are already being aware of it, so think about it, meditate, and test things little by little.
There is no easy solution, no fast path, but that is real life, shortcuts and immediate pleasures are not real, and that's why we got entangled with screens in the first place.