Is anyone else addicted to their phone?

[MOSTHATED]

As soon as I wake up, I start using my phone until I go to sleep. I usually wake up at abt 8am. I think that's about 19 hours of screentime? Idk. Maybe the math is wrong but I usually go to sleep at abt midnight or maybe 3 or 4am. Just on my phone. I even use it on the charger sometimes. My mom always says it's not safe but idc. It's the only thing that provides me with any sort of "entertainment" cus there's never ever anything to watch on tv. And it's the only thing that provides me with a bit of joy. I only use tiktok, pinterest, youtube and reddit (and twitter but i deleted it because its twitter) I started losing interest in them tho. Everything is so boring. I use to watch tiktok and youtube for hours. But now it feels very boring. I can't find anything anywhere that interests me....

 

[FoxSauce]

Yes I use my phone relentlessly, im moslty watching an old series but other than that pinterest or yt

 

[SomeDude]

Maybe not my phone but I use my laptop for that...
I hate this feeling, everything seems so pointless :/

 

[thelostautistic]

Yes it's awful. I've fallen out of the good habits I put in place to reduce my screen time. I need to get back on it

 

[synthetic_suicide]

it's an addiction like many others. A behavioral addiction. There are groups trying to work on it modeled on the same structure of AA, like ITAA. I had mixed experience with them but worth a try. https://linktr.ee/hello_itaa

 

[♡Sayori_Kinnie♡]

VERY, I treat it as though it is cocaine x_x!!

 

[starboy2k]

Yea I am and I honestly don't care. I could be addicted to far worse things………..

 

[Pluto]

 

[yume_]

Yeah same, I think it's just a form of escapism of my responsabilities and life in general. Tbh I am having the same thing as you. The dopamine isn't coming anymore as it used to.

 

[rotthjärta]

I used to be heavily, well I still am but I make it harder for me to reach things. I fell into a degoogle-ing or getting rid of social media as much as I can but I still watch youtube for hours and hours mainly because I feel like I need background noise. But also I don't know anyone irl and for now I've been a "neet" so nothing else I could do then be online.

 

[X-sanguinate86]

Maybe not my phone but I use my laptop for that...
I hate this feeling, everything seems so pointless :/

Same.

I sometimes watch old series from different periods in my life. Afterwards I feel even worse. I realize how desperate I am to fill a void that can't be filled. I remember the different periods in my life. Especially the 20s...I was soooo lonely...so desperately lonely.

 

[MOSTHATED]

Maybe not my phone but I use my laptop for that...
I hate this feeling, everything seems so pointless :/

I use to have a laptop but I didn't take care of it very well. I had it for like abt two years and a few months before it just gave up

 

[violetforever]

theyre basically meant to be so yeah .-.

 

[MOSTHATED]

Yea I am and I honestly don't care. I could be addicted to far worse things………..

Exactly it's like probably the least harmful addiction (maybe?)

 

[SarahThrowsGin]

Yes, unfortunately, and it is ruining my life. I can't control my use of phone whatsoever.

 

[PainThreshold]

Maybe? I have a very high screen time but I also don't have any problem getting off the phone.

But then again, I'd literally be doing nothing at all. I can't think of anything to fill the void other than the phone.

 

[noname223]

As soon as I wake up, I start using my phone until I go to sleep. I usually wake up at abt 8am. I think that's about 19 hours of screentime? Idk. Maybe the math is wrong but I usually go to sleep at abt midnight or maybe 3 or 4am. Just on my phone. I even use it on the charger sometimes. My mom always says it's not safe but idc. It's the only thing that provides me with any sort of "entertainment" cus there's never ever anything to watch on tv. And it's the only thing that provides me with a bit of joy. I only use tiktok, pinterest, youtube and reddit (and twitter but i deleted it because its twitter) I started losing interest in them tho. Everything is so boring. I use to watch tiktok and youtube for hours. But now it feels very boring. I can't find anything anywhere that interests me....

It is not safe to use the phone on the charger? I am doing this all my life. Lol. I am an extreme phone addict. Like really really addicted. When I was in college though I could easily stop being on the phone. Maybe this would be an argument against addiction. But I think I am checking it a couple of hundred times of day. Lol. I once had an app that counts it...

 

[MOSTHATED]

It is not safe to use the phone on the charger? I am doing this all my life. Lol. I am an extreme phone addict. Like really really addicted. When I was in college though I could easily stop being on the phone. Maybe this would be an argument against addiction. But I think I am checking it a couple of hundred times of day. Lol. I once had an app that counts it...

Yay my mom says so. I still do it. If anything, I think it just damages the phones battery. My phone is still work fine though.

 

[BPDTalk]

I hope to be able to reduce my screen time usage in the future for a better life.

 

[coolcow1289]

We all are, and anyone who says otherwise is in denial. And if it isn't your phone, it's your TV or PC or something else. It's an extremely strong and damaging addiction but nobody can tell because there is no control group. It's a huge part of why everyone is so anxious and depressed.

 

[bakenohana]

my phone is all i have. if it wasnt for my phone and everything on it, i likely wouldn't make it through today. When I was younger i was very protective of my phone, so much so that my parents weren't even allowed to take it off me or tell me to put it down, because if they ever took it away i would have gotten extremely aggressive and landed myself in an isolated hospital room again. So i guess i am? my phone to me is what life support is to people who need it.

 

[Lamentice]

I don't even have any social media besides this and a perma banned reddit acc with a 1hr/day time limit... and I'm still addicted to my phone... I have some games, but they're idle games where you just collect stuff while you walk or something--nothing to do but check in every once in a while on automatic progress. I have no background (just a black background and lockscreen), and I have most app icons greyed out, all that to remove as much stimulus as possible so I do something else with my time and somehow I still am fucking addicted to my phone. I don't even know what I do on it all day, seriously, what could I possibly be doing, still addicted though lol.

 

[K14~♡]

I use it all day too playing games and I feel like I'm getting sick of spending my days like this but at the same time I don't wanna do anything...TT