According to Apple’s Screen Time, I spent an average of almost 9 hours a day looking at screens in the past week.
I'm not judging myself--it was US election week and when I wasn't refreshing fivethirtyeight, I was dissociating into a phone game. These things happen. It’s okay.
What I don't love is that my brain has become used to this stimulation and craves it even when I don't need information or escape.
I feel like my threshold has been raised to a point where less-than-Vegas-levels of stimulation don't even register. I need to re-calibrate.
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