I quit gaming 2 years ago, watched a lot of YouTube, I can't have a good normal day I'm inside on my phone all day watching YouTube or procrastinating, so yeah im quiting technology. Some people we're meant to suffer, and have everything taken from them.

Hey dlongflop, I get where you are coming from, but I do want to say that you may also end up feeling very isolated by cutting out all of technology as a whole.

I would personally recommend you check out Internet and Technology Addicts Anonymous. In particular, look for the "Discovering Sobriety Worksheet." The goal is to keep the healthy aspects and behaviors with technology, while cutting out the behaviors that trigger your addiction. There are tech behaviors that do help us live a healthy, meaningful, and sober life. I recommend you sit down and reflect on what bare minimum use of technology you need to live functionally.

For example, this may include work, education, finances, health, recovery, creative expression, or soberly connecting with people we love. This is what is called purposeful, healthy, conscious, or minimal use. You could also always get a bare-bones cellphone too, one which just makes calls, receives texts, and so on, to help with maintaining healthy technology use.

This is exactly why quitting video games works too; they are one aspect of technology that can be addictive, one aspect that can be cut out if they are harmful, as they are not essential to healthy tech uses.

From one recovering internet addict to another, I wish you the best.

Edited September 26, 20241 yr by D_Cozy