#im also pretty lucky in my friend groups here bc it's frowned upon to be on your phone in company

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how did you make it out of being on your phone all the time? any tips?

ooof. yeah. it was all in steps bc i was very very addicted and didn't even want to admit it at the time. so first i turned off almost all notifications, apart from essential ones like texts. then i deleted tiktok. and in my latest move, which has made an enormous difference, is that i put books on my phone so that if i'm in a situation where i wanna have stimulation but don't have a book (like during breaks at work (aka on the toilet lol) or im on a train or wherever) i read instead of scrolling. it took a lot of adjusting at first, bc i was very addicted to being in the loop, most of all. reading every discord thread, checking my tumblr notes, scrolling the dash as far as i could..... but then i realised that the friends i made would still be my friends even if i didn't see every convo they were having. or i would still be a fan of the things i liked even if i didn't know every little detail about the newest update (i think i'm not alone in experiencing that feeling).

most of all i became very aware of how phone addicted i was, and i still feel too dependent. so now whenever i'm in public and i grab my phone to check something i judge myself. it's a bit of a harsh tactic but i'm mentally slapping my fingers so that i'm not some screen addicted zombie roaming the streets as if i can't.. walk around... without stimulation. im aware that i sound so old rn but i can truly tell that i've gotten a clearer head and i've slowed down a lot thanks to these changes. and now im crushing my goodreads goal lmao