Ever since my mom lost her job in 2021 she has gotten completely dopamine fried from social media and youtube and it has only gotten worse. Sometimes she has a tablet with her phone at the same time. She is clearly glued and addicted to content and she get rage baited easily. To the point where she is in an alternating state of anger and sadness over the state of the world.Now, I’m not above her. I am also dopamine fried (social media and sadly porn these last few months) but I at least know how bad this shit is even if it’s hard for me to deal with.My mom is one of the nicest people in the world. I love her very, very much and some time soon I will move out. It just breaks my heart to see her glued to media and never taking a break from it, all the way until she goes to bed. I’ll find her nodding off in front of her tablet sometimes where I tell her to go to bed. Dad told me yesterday the data bill is through the roof, which would be a lot but he has an unlimited plan. Yeah… Social media companies are essentially designing this to entice people and it disgusts me.I thought about giving her an intervention today (she usually listens to me, God bless her) and I was thinking of taking the angle of pulling at her heart strings because it hurts me to see her that way and that I am also struggling with this. Do you guys have any experience with something like this? Anything you suggest I do? It’s normal for people to get defensive whenever you try to intervene and speak about an ongoing addictive behavior so I’d like to minimize that without her feeling like I’m judging her because I’m not. I’m struggling with the same thing.
>>34503343Approach it from the angle of sympathy for how sad and angry she seems. Start with a question about whether she is happy with her social media usage. If she says she's fine, leave her be. If she says she is unhappy with it, you can work together to forge a solution
you guys don't have a router? you might try blocking her to make her touch grass
>>34503726I’ve thought of a way to block her access as well but other than tinkering in her phone to do so I dunno what ele I could do. Any tips?>>34503720I get the sentiment if she says she’s okay but it’s bad for her (and for all of us) and I’m willing to bet most peple’s knee jerk reaction is to say they are fine. I hope she sees my worry, though.
>>34503793if you have a router you can block certain websites on the dns level
>>34503805Shit, this might help me out, too. I’ll look into it
