How have people gotten over an addiction to their phone? I don't even think it's an addiction I think its just a bad habit, which ends in hours of mindless scrolling. Cold Turkey and delete all socials? I don't know but I know it is effecting my mental health......
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The busier I am the less time I spend on my phone. At the moment I’m not busy so it’s too easy to pick up my phone. Activities that keep my hands busy work best. It’s really hard to hold a phone while working out, knitting etc. a friend of mine only has social media on her old desk top computer. It works for her, as it’s a pain to turn on, slow and not comfy to sit at.
I find I go straight to Facebook without even thinking about it. I have changed my password before to something really random, a heap of letters and numbers, wrote it on a piece of paper and put the piece of paper up where I can't reach without a chair. The aim was to take the automation out of it, like going from *pick up phone click on Facebook, stay on there for too long* to *pick up phone click on fb, oh that's right I'm staying off*. I found this better than deleting as I have a lot of older extended family that live interstate and fb is the only way we keep in contact so whenever I've tried deleting it they think I've unfriended them.
You can go into the settings and put timer on apps. I have it for the kids roblacks accounts ot they will play for hours. Set thing ls got like 30mins