How To Stop Doom Scrolling
Possible ways to stop or minimize doom scrolling can be:
- Keep a track of how much time you spend on social media doing nothing, identifying the negative frequency.
- Set a timer or use the inbuilt apps to close the doomscrolling feeds.
- Establish a time to put your phone away at the end of the day, or to turn it off whenever possible.
- Support others to move away from their phones, and go see the real world.
137
963 reads
CURATED FROM
IDEAS CURATED BY
The idea is part of this collection:
Learn more about personaldevelopment with this collection
Effective communication
Persuasion techniques
Closing a sale
Related collections
Similar ideas to How To Stop Doom Scrolling
How to Make Your Smartphone Work Like a Dumb Phone
Are you addicted to your smartphone and looking to minimize distractions? Follow these steps to turn your phone into a productive tool:
- Download Blank Spaces App and ScreenZen for better screen time management.
Your phone should provide as little distraction as possible
Your phone should provide as little distraction as possible. A few systems to help you stop a phone addiction:
- Don't look at your screen immediately after waking up. Use an analog alarm and keep your phone on the other side of the room.
Limit Yourself
Set a timer on your watch or phone, to limit the amount of time you spend on social media. Choose a limit depending on the severity of your addiction – say an hour a day, which equates to seven hours per week – and whenever you check your accounts, start your timer going. When you reach your limi...
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Personalized microlearning
—
100+ Learning Journeys
—
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates