Digital detox : Do you do it? If yes how you do it?

It's been long since I am unable to stop thinking. 1. Non stop content consumption 2. Brain is always occupied with something random 3. Kind of addicted to phone, screen, earphone. What about you, do you also feel the same way and how do you over come it?

Between Slack, emails, and ""urgent"" texts, I feel like I'm working 24/7. I'm afraid to disconnect, but I'm burning out fast. How do you handle the pressure to always be available?

It’s clear to me that this isn’t good for me. My interaction with the outside world and being in the present is inversely proportional to how much I use IG/smartphone. IG is obv the strongest drug, but in general want to be more conscious about what I do on my phone, when Inuse it. Looking for genuine advice. Please help 🙏🏻

I’ve lately been struggling with keeping my energy levels up through the day. My lifestyle isn’t that bad. Decent sleep, frequent exercise, I’m happy etc But I find myself zoning out of conversations and this is affecting my ability to be “liked” at the workplace. It’s not even about being liked, but as a person I don’t like not being able to 100% be there for people when they’re talking to me. It’s what makes us human, in a way. People who are high energy, have you figured what your secret might be? thanks 🙏🏻

Books, websites, videos / yt channels, podcast that have helped you.

As asked in the title. During office timings, I am really anxious to the point that I am unable to relax during lunch breaks as I am afraid I will get a message or a call that I might have to jump into. I know it sounds stupid, but I spend nearly 10 hours everyday with crippling anxiety. It has become so bad, I am considering quitting to work on myself just to get rid of this anxiety. However the Current market scenario doesn't allow me to me do this. I have asked my friends and family about this, but everyone says 'don't quit', 'work hard' Etc. I am sick of hearing this.

Hey folks, firstly thanks a lot for just so many comments on my last post. It was so much good advice, and such long and detailed answers. Reference: https://share.gvine.app/CsMYWobrGKA8JUKT9 I’ve now started taking active steps: 1) Deleted IG immediately, just using it on Web cuz sometimes I need to use it for work 2) In general reducing phone usage. Consciously keeping phone away at night time and also not keeping it around always 3) Have set wallpaper/background so that it constantly reminds me not to indulge in doom scrolling, and reminds me to be mindful. It’s just early. But I felt I owed it to at least share some updates. Very grateful to you all

Disclaimer: This post is not for self validation or to seek attention. Posting here strictly for advice as I believe many people here must have gone through this. I’m a final year student studying BTech in India. I have a foreign internship confirmed from Feb next year, and my current intern at a startup is ending at 30th November. I’ve been working at this startup for more than 2 years now, poured my heart and soul into it, but due to career growth decisions I had to leave it. With nothing to do for next 2 months, I have started slacking off from work even though I have 20 days left, which is bad. All work and no play since last 3 months have left me so burnt out that I have done less than 6 hours of coding in last 1 week. It’s eating me up from inside as I have a huge obligation to this startup, plus there is so much to learn, and I don’t want to start my career with such unprofessional behaviour. Instagram and YouTube shorts have ruined my attention span, mental energy and will to work, and it’s affecting my mental and physical health as well. I have tried multiple motivational videos, practices, tips and tricks, everything. They help for maximum of 2 days and then it’s again back to this. Even though I’m hugely interested in tech, learning, devops and programming… motivation is dead and my life feels ruined, especially after seeing all the achievements people are having in and around social media, linkedin etc. I just don’t know what to do to overcome this lazyness.

Thanks to social media, my attention span has new lows. Working remotely is making me inactive and end up spending tooo much time on scrolling. Not able to continuously work for even one hour without checking the phone. Anyone in a similar situation and how are you trying to get better?