I'm currently 19 years old and I have a serious problem with my cell phone and everything that comes with social media and video games. I feel an emptiness inside that I want to fill, but I've become so dependent on it that if I don't spend even a single day glued to a screen, I get desperate. This causes me to procrastinate a lot; it feels horrible to be constantly focused on this addiction. What would be the best way to solve this? Because I really want to become disciplined with what I set out to do and not leave it unfinished.
>>34456217Delete the apps.
>>34456217>What would be the best way to solve this?I can give you a million routines and say "Break this up into 5 things, do this at 6:00 AM everyday, take a shit at 12:00 PM every Sunday" and other shit like thatBut to be honest, after the 2nd week you'd give up and come back here asking for more help, and it'd be an endless cycle.What you should know anon is that your body needs a stable routine, it relies on muscle memory. If you stray from your pre-existing routine too hard and too fast, it'll snap back and make it even harder to leave.So the thing you have to do is examine why you even need the phone.Dopamine? Mindlessly just filling time? What is it that you want? Try and fill it with something else.Again, don't try and replace every single time you want to use your phone with a different task, it'll become tiresome after a while. Maybe every now and then, when you get the urge, take a walk instead of scrolling, or listen to some music.Eventually it'll get easier as you fill in more urges to scroll with walks or tasks or even finally doing your homework. Again, don't rely on what people say is a "Dopamine detox routine" or whatnot. Discipline comes from the long-haul and actual results, not how much you can change all at once for 2 weeks.
You need a "fix" of information, but your own source is this "junk food" type. You need a denser concentration and dosages of "information". Identify what information you are "missing". Find ways to fill that gap in the fastest, most efficient and comprehensive way possible. Do it.
