Venting The worst addiction

[chudt320]

Doom scrolling and social media consumption might be the worst addiction there is. I literally feel dead if I'm not scrolling through reels or jewtok. It's not that I can't get off it, it's that when I do, I feel very depressed.

It's rotted my brain so much that whenever I try to do anything requiring cognitive work, like studying or reading a book, I overthink a million different things and get frustrated, like a low impulse control ape. Even writing this right now, I'm starting to get angry. I want to go study for the exam that will get me into uni, but I'm too lobotomized

I've had a porn addiction, and it wasn't even 40% as bad as this. I've tried drinking on multiple occasions and smoked a bunch of packs of cigs and never got the appeal of either. This is worse

The main thing keeping me from deleting jewtok is a long streak with a "friend" I used to be close with. But I think I'm just going to cut remaining contact with him and delete the app

All of this could've been prevented if my parents had actually gave a fuck instead of handing me brain rape devices at a young age and never helping with my education. Maybe then my coping mechanisms could have been reading and studying, instead of this

I will keep trying to quit this addiction but I have a really long way to go still

 

[nihilum]

I used to be addicted too.

 

[nihilum]

I used to be addicted to TikTok.

 

[McFlurryCel]

truE

 

[glowIntheDark]

this is so relatable man i have written atleast 12 threads on this site about my phone/doomscrolling addiction - I tried dopamine fasting, internet blocking apps, i even bought a small dumbphone without internet....

nothing works I am like a crack addict that will keep at it even when he knows it will kill him

 

[chudt320]

this is so relatable man i have written atleast 12 threads on this site about my phone/doomscrolling addiction - I tried dopamine fasting, internet blocking apps, i even bought a small dumbphone without internet....

nothing works I am like a crack addict that will keep at it even when he knows it will kill him

Yeah, I saw your post earlier bro

Whatever it takes we have to grow out of this, and it's not gonna be easy

 

[chudt320]

I used to be addicted to TikTok.

I'm glad to hear that you quit

 

[Mrzimljude]

I have this issue as well.

 

[GigaL0ser]

Same man

I have probably around 10+ hours of screen time on my phone and I fucking hate it, but unfortunately I have nothing else to do and I’m at home 24/7, so that’s my only option that I have.

 

[Chirag gupta]

Very relatable.

Essentially, my entire day consists of waking up, scrolling tiktok for two hours, getting up and eating breakfast while watching jewtube, then fluctuating between the both of them. Every meal I have is spent watching them, and occasionally I’ll go on .is.

It’s not really like I have much of a choice, since I’m a full on NEET and I have absolutely no friends. Id be pretty much just staring at a wall if I weren’t on them all the time. To make things worse, my eyesight is rapidly deteriorating due to this addiction, and I can’t even look at something 2 meters in front of me without it being blurry.