How to Effectively Reduce Your Screen time and Social Media Addiction?

Mobile phones are the biggest distraction in today’s world, especially for students. It takes away a major chunk of your time. The doomscrolling has become a major threat. The incessant scrolling and consumption of social media content is the main source of existential anxiety, despair, and stress, leaving one insecure and unsatisfied.  The only way to overcome it is to reduce screen time.

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Here, are some top effective ways that you can use to reduce screen time:

• Log out of your account every time you use social media. This will delay the dopamine kick that your brain needs every now and then due to addiction. Practice making good habits easy and bad habits hard as mentioned by James Clear in his book Atomic Habits. 
• Turn your phone to a grey scale. The black and white screen will make the app icons less appealing.
• Practise leaving your phone in a different room when studying or not taking it along with you when going out for a walk. Incorporate physical activities and other hobbies to help you stay away from your phone. 
• Practise conscious living and start appreciating things around you, this will help with digital detox. Before opening an app ask yourself what you are opening it. Are you opening it because you really need it or are you opening it because you are getting bored and feeling lonely?
• If possible switch to a flip phone instead of a smartphone. 
• Use productivity apps like Forest or Freedom to block apps to help you stay focused on tasks by limiting phone use and rewarding you for staying off your device.

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