How did you quit Instagram addiction?

[integration journey]

It’s so addicting and stimulating.

I mainly use to check about my home country but it sucks you into its algorithm and you start checking it every couple of hours. Everyday. You start posting stories. Watching all the endless stories and posts. It feels nice but shallow. You repeat the cycle. 
it’s so freaking addictive. 
 

Edited Tuesday at 05:56 PM by integration journey

[bazera]

Delete an app from your phone, log out from browsers after each use, and you can even install Chrome extensions that disable stories, reels, etc. It's fully customizable.

I've successfuly went from 5-6h Insta screentime to basically 0-10 minutes a day. Most days 0.

[Miguel1]

Finding and focusing on my life purpose suddenly erased all minor problems from my life.

[Flowerfaeiry]

You want to go cold turkey? Or you still want to be able to use it? I feel like if you’re determined enough to go cold turkey you could do it and not use it at all. But if you still want access to it, it’s a little more challenging because yeah you’re stepping foot into the river and it’s hard not to get wet. So I bought a Brick device, which means I can lock my phone out from certain apps indefinitely, unless I have the tool to unlock it next to me. That really helps. And I also have two more buffers on Instagram. One of them kicks me out after I’ve been on for 15 minutes and the other one makes me take a breath and sets a time limit for me. This addiction is a challenging one, you basically have to be very determined. Also if you have a higher power that helped me a lot. 

[Joshe]

The same way you’d quit anything. By getting lost in the weeds of something else. 

[YIDIRYIDIR]

 @integration journey see why you use it so much, like deep down why.
here are common reasons why people can't pull themselves from scrolling:

they might be avoiding some emotions or numbing them down. or, they are using it as a soothing mechanism from a stressful life, or as an escape. or it's the only way for them to relax or rest, maybe it's their only window to see other people, or because they feel lonely, or they have nothing going on in their life so the default mode is scrolling, or they have fear of missing out and becoming uncool, or every time they try to do something important, they get resistance and use scrolling for procrastination. or they just simply bored all the time. 
just turn inwards, and once you find why, it becomes easy to quit. 

trying to delete the apps or turn your phone black and white so it's not appealing, or simply forcing yourself to quit won't work, until you know why you do it. 

watch these episodes of Leo: "awareness alone is curative", "overcoming addiction" and "how to stop watching TV"

For me, why i was addicted to it at a certain point is i was numbing down fears around staring my freelance business, i was feeling like an imposter, afraid of embracing myself, of failing, of making the wrong decision... it was slowing me down and impacting my life negatively.
it took some awareness and some mindset work and after some time i automatically find myself repelled from even opening it. meaning i didn't discipline myself or deleted the app, i just addressed the fears i had, and shined my awareness on how that habit was effecting me negatively and it solved itself overtime. 

[Lila9]

I don't have an addiction to Instagram, but I do have a general addiction to the internet, so I can relate to the frustration.
Usually, there is an underlying reason for that. 

For me, it's stress. Every time something stressful happens in my reality (death, war, tragedy, uncertainty, stress at work etc.), I feel the need to escape reality because I am so overwhelmed with anxiety.

When I address the anxiety and consciously work on regulating it with the tools I have, I am well. 

But there are times when I am so overwhelmed by anxiety because reality is so painful that I forget to be conscious of it, and all I want is to forget reality. I guess it's a "better" addiction than heroin or fentanyl. Not that I normalize this.