How Stop Internet Addiction?

[SimpleGuy]

When I free time I always tend to watch entertainment content on youtube. Like when I want to do something productive (read book, in example), I just find myself watching youtube and then I have no time to read a book.

Any advice, please. Thank you so much guys. Appreciate it

[WonderSeeker]

First, get a phone lockbox (temporary fix).

Lock it away and then ask this question to yourself:

What payoff do you get from watching YT?

Wait for a genuine answer. Then, let go of it (root-cause fix).

That gets rid of the belief---that for some reason you need to consume YouTube compulsively---at the root.

Hope this helps~

Edited 4 hours ago by WonderSeeker

[WonderSeeker]

Oh and if you just wind up watching the Tube on your computer, then get Cold Turkey website blocker.

It blocks certain sites and makes it impossible to unlock the setting while a "work-block" is active.

But that's if you really need it (it's like $40).

[Human Mint]

Just burn the craving. Spend 3 hs cobsuming trash but then do something productive

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

I'd go as far as to say that there's no such thing as productivity anymore. It's been rendered useless and it's a joke concept. So there's no wonder you don't feel "productive", it's essentially horseshit. I could elaborate if I cared to

[Joshe]

Simple. Replace it with something else and don’t think about it.

The addiction persists because it’s doing something for your nervous system. You cannot simply use awareness to convince your nervous system that it should no longer need it. The point of replacing the addiction with something else is to retrain the nervous system over time, and it will eventually forget all about it. 

This is 100x more effective than willpower or mindset. 

Edited 1 hour ago by Joshe