A detox is needed.

When I look at myself I do believe especially now that I depend way too much on social media. With us still going through the pandemic and being at home more often and being near our phone a lot more, our screen activity has definitely gone up. My screen time has more than doubled compared to last year. I also believe that I need to cut down on my dependency on not only the social media that I use but also my phone in general. I’ve recently realized that whenever I feel bored I reach for my phone, whenever i’m sad i reach for my sad and right when I wake in the morning/before I go to bed at night I reach for it. I was already too dependent on my phone but now it has gotten even worse and I have to work on that.

I have to work on that because I do get more stress and anxiety from being distracted on my phone. When I’m on my phone I do get distracted from doing other important things like working on homework or projects or planning out my schedule for school. Basically way more important things and I end up regretting it because of course hindsight is 20/20. I end up regretting being on my phone for so long and see how far i’m behind and that is where the stress and anxiety start. But, it’s me who is doing it to myself I can’t blame anyone else but me because I continue to reach for my phone.

To work on it I think that I should start by deleting a lot of my favorite social media apps. The main reason why I reach for my phone is to use those apps. If I delete them, then that would for sure help reduce the amount of times I will reach for it. I think a social media detox will be very helpful. I think I should also create a “do not use” phone window. For a certain amount of hours and at a certain time of day I should not use my phone and dedicate that time to doing something useful like my schoolwork.