There is not a lot of awareness of screen addiction on here, so I decided to write down some points on how you can tell you might be addicted.
You don’t have to recognize all these points to be addicted and only you can tell if you’re addicted or not.
- You call in sick because you want to spend time on your screen.
- Constantly oversleep and be late or almost late to school/work every day because you spend the entire night on a screen.
- If you like a Netflix show you’ll watch one season each day.
- You neglect hygiene.
- When someone passes away, you don’t mourn and instead get glued to your screen.
- You perform badly on many areas of life.
- You become weirdly aggressive when your screen is taken away or you have bad WiFi.
- You push away loved ones.
- The majority of your friends are online friends or people you personally know that spend a lot of time on their phones socializing online with you whilst you sit next to them.
- At some point you might communicate more in English than your native tongue.
- You feel unmotivated and tired. You don’t want to do anything besides sitting on your arse and look at your screen.
- You lay down for weeks to game/browse on your phone.
- You don’t go outside if you don’t have to.
- You’re physically weak and short of breath every time you move.
- You struggle putting away your phone.
- Your concentration is shit because you constantly think about social media/games.
- You’re incredibly susceptible to rabbit-holes.
- You push away friends and family because you find your screen more important.