#Get off your phone

[aquaglow]

De-vice your device: tips to decrease screen time 📱🔒

Build the habit of turning off your phone from time to time. We're so used to just charging and charging our phones but never turning it off, but any electronic device needs to be turned off from time to time. Start by turning it off when you go to sleep, whether it's a nap or night time, and then move on to just turning it off after you're done using it.

Review often what you're using your phone for. Are you using too many apps that just result in you mindlessly staring at the screen, stuck in scrolling? Are you following every single news story or tabloid gossip that pops up? Is the content you're engaging with really entertaining, really enriching, really necessary? Be more critical of what you're doing with your phone in the first place.

Turn your notifications off. Unless you have an ongoing responsibility that requires you to be reachable 24/7, no matter where you are or what you're doing, otherwise someone's life may be at peril, then there's no reason for you to be available at all times, and definitely not immediately. It's important to be humble and admit that you're simply not needed that urgently! When you're truly available, check your apps and then you'll know whether there's something new or not.

Replace as many phone functionalities as you can. If your phone is your camera, your alarm clock, your agenda, your books, your music, your wallet, your social life, then of course you're going to be stuck to it all day long. Take your needs off from your phone as much as possible, separate your life from it. I promise you, most things that entertain, inform and aid in daily life have their own specific device/gadget. (And they're often cheap to get, since so many people have replaced them with phones!)

Go out without your phone as often as you can. Like I said, unless you're absolutely needed for life-or-death situations, there's no need for you to be on your phone at all times. That means that when you're outside, doing something important or just taking a walk, there's no need for you to be glued to a screen. Whatever is there, it can wait until you're home.

Embrace boredom. It's fine, and even suggested often that it's necessary, to be bored once in a while. You don't need to be "doing something", absorbing information, at all times. You don't need to watch a video while you eat, or listen to a podcast while you do chores, or talk to friends while you're in the shower. You can just do a mundane task and let it be that, and you can feel like there's nothing to do and then do nothing. That's not a bad thing.

Keep your phone physically away when you can, especially away from bed. Having your phone within arm's reach at all times contributes to the act of constantly picking it up, which becomes automatic after a very short while. If your phone is not available at all times, you'll break the automatic response cycle of reaching for it (the same goes for turning it off). And it's especially important to not be on your phone in bed, so that you don't keep the habit of being glued to the screen until the last possible moment, or ruining your sleep cycle because of it.

Allow your life to have waits and doubts. If you're trying to remember something, it's okay to not remember it, you don't have to look it up immediately. If you want to talk to someone, you don't have to text them immediately. Basically, you don't have to interrupt most things by reaching for your phone just to try and get an immediate response, answer, reaction. Let things hang in the air, or leave them for later.

Consider just deleting yourself. I say this especially to the younger people who have never experienced life without phones and especially without social media. Consider the action of just deleting some, if not all, social media accounts and subscriptions you have, at least for a determined amount of time. I, and a lot of tech specialists and psychologists, suggest the period of at least six months to do a real tech detox. You simply can't understand what life is like without social media and the current state of being online unless you actually experience it. It may seem radical, and to be fair, it is, but isn't it also radical for a young person to be addicted to their phone?

(This was originally posted on my old account)

[thereadmind]

Start today ‼️

[defensive-tactics]

Threat Awareness, Situational Awareness, Defensive Awareness; whatever you call it, pay attention to your surroundings and get the heck off your phone.

[risottofan7]

safety fact OTD: did you know that driving while on your phone has been shown to be just as if not more impairing than having the maximum legal BAC while driving?

(^ underlined words are sources but i am also a psych student so this was in recent notes i had to take anyways)

remember safety rules are usually written in blood! dont call or text while driving please ❤️

[punk-raphaelite]

“You know they really hurt my feelings, I don’t think they were thinking about how it would affect me at all and-”

“Maybe they have autism”

Wow, thank you Dr. Instagram Infographic for your well thought out diagnosis. Please tell me how this small anecdote of a person’s behaviour lines up with the diagnostic criteria for autism in your self-assigned non professional opinion. Oh, but you’ve watched enough reels and know enough stereotypes from television that you feel fine throwing it out there like it was nothing.

Whatever happened to “yeah that was shitty of them” or “they sound like an asshole”

What is this need to play armchair psychologist and pathologize every little behaviour of a person you don’t like? It doesn’t make you sound smart, it doesn’t add anything of value to the conversation. You have no idea what you’re talking about, and you’re just muddying the waters when it comes to your and other people’s understanding of what autism actually is.

[redrobinfr]

... hn. -B

i'm taking this next time you want me to rest as permission to not follow protocols btw

[tadpoles-yay]

also before I go to bed I have to share that my brother elbowed me in the face today as we were wrestling on my bed and we both heard a crack noise as he hit me. So we were both like “tf is my nose broken????” So we did all the tests (according to the logic side of a pre teen and a teen) and it seems fine except it S T I L L hurts. Also I went camping for three days and made some friends within the first 2hours k bye

[barnesdeservesbetter]

I know I am late to the party, but I’ve just finished reading “Get off your phone” wolfstar fic and

Boy

It is a beautiful work and I really enjoyed it.

And the fact that it is unfinished and stops on such a heartbreaking moment💔💔

[0alanasworld0]

Bit disappointed with the head of the moroccan federation of football tbh

[supersailorgoku]

Sam Winchester on YouTube watching foxgirl vtubers play DBD like

[yourlocalgrammarpolice]

Quick message

[autonoes]

girl you need to get off your phone

[defensive-tactics]

I can't stress enough why it's important to stay off your phone when in public. Which is why I keep posting these kinds of things... different wording, same subject.

[autistichorseboy]

Bro I'm going to use the men's bathroom forever if more women are on the phone while I'm having a piss mate

[that1garrulousfan]

HEY YOU 🫵

DO YOU HAVE A PERSONAL LIBRARY?

DO YOU HAVE BOOKS YOU HAVEN’T READ?

CHALLENGE: COMMIT TO ONE BOOK EVERY MONTH, OR AT LEAST READ A CHAPTER FOR ONE HOUR

OBSTACLES: UNLESS YOU WANT MUSIC, NO SCROLLING THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA, EVERY CHAPTER WRITE A SUMMARY TO SEE HOW MUCH YOU PROCESSED

BONUS: MAKE YOUR OWN STORY (AU IF YOUR CHARACTERS WERE IN THE STORY YOU READ, OR MAKE A NEW STORY- BE CREATIVE!!) USE VOCAB FROM THE BOOKS

[thetreestumptherapist]

I feel so seen and so called out at the same time. I didn't know how much I needed this post until I just saw it. Also, I literally just started scrolling and am not stuck yet... I'll try to remember this post when I do get stuck...

Also, can we take a second to ponder the irony of doom scrolling the internet being such a common problem that there is an entire section/genre of the internet dedicated to reminding people to stop doom scrolling?

Hey. Hey you. The person aimlessly scrolling, stuck in an immobilized standoff with your brain

It's not your fault. You won't be stuck forever. I know you're trying. I know you hate it. It's ok.

And tell the Mean Voice in your head that it's not helping. It knows as well as you do that you would get up and Just Start the task if you could. You're not doing this on purpose.

Take a deep breath. Relax your jaw. I see you trying so hard to break out of it, but you can't force it. You'll get Unstuck eventually. All you can do in the interim is be kind to yourself.