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Oh that 5 year old me, sneaking books under her covers with a blues clues flashlight that turned off every five minutes automatically with an audible “doh duh dog duh doh duh dohhh… DUH DOH!”, could see me now: feeling violent amounts of shame for being on my phone at 3 in the morning. YOU ARE USING YOUR FREEDOM AS PER THE MISSION!!! She would say, and I try to agree. I hope she’s proud of me even when I can’t find the way to be. I know I feel that way about her.
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Feb 28, 2024
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There are a lot of phone haters on this app and I respect that.
I always thought ppl who slept with their phone out of reach were insane.
I have a hard time waking up in the morning, but I saw this video of this woman saying the sleep you get after your alarm goes off is so bad it’s not even worth it. So set your alarm as late as you can and then just get up. This has really helped me so I don’t care if it’s true and I don’t want to know unless it is.
if the phone is across the room I don’t scroll before bed, which I’m kinda mostly weaned off anyway, but I also don’t get that creepy fake fomo that makes me need to check it one last time before I close my eyes AND I also have to get up to turn the alarm off. And then I have a second to remember it’s not worth getting back in bed.
Sometimes you even get a surprise text or something from after you put it down and that can be fun
I don’t know if phone is more good or bad. Easy to fetishize a “simpler time” I never even lived through. But I think we are in control of our destinies and don’t need it as much as we think. Real life is better.
This was about waking up to alarm but now it’s about phone.
Ps I wrote this standing where I leave my phone for the night
Jan 22, 2025
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Sounds a wee bit crazy, but I am serious. Now, I am not fully justifying his reasonings, but I also will not sit here and say I was a golden child. However,,, With how often my phone was taken away as a Kid, I really think it helped me become less dependent on it. I typically leave my phone at home if I am out being social (and my boyfriend brings his, you know, for emergency). During those times, it helped me gain other hobbies of the internet, like offline games on consoles, drawing, painting, writing, hell anything creative, I was trying to figure out a way to do it. That has helped me gain more interest in continuing that instead of doom-scrolling. So, in a way, thanks dad!
Mar 14, 2025
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I‘m an OCD baddie and I’m slowly weaning myself off of needing my phone to sleep. I have been reliant on podcasts/youtube for sleep for almost 10 years but it was really messing with my sleep quality and overall anxiety. I have been charging my devices outside my room, and then reading an easy book until I’m basically asleep. Then I try to sleep and if the OCD spirals win I‘ll get my phone and play a boring podcast I’ve heard before. It’s tough but it’s sort of working for me. Most nights I don’t end up needing my phone.
Apr 8, 2025
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