Comments by "1midnightfish" (@1midnightfish) on "The 'Dopamine Detox' trend needs to end." video.

  1. Strangely for me, it's the opposite... but I'm probably an outlier, in that I didn't have a smartphone until late last year and I'm not on social media. I used to log into my laptop to make sure I didn't miss a work email - I'm a precarious worker and rely partly on last-minute work - then I'd get sucked into the news, then youtube, etc etc. Before I knew it I'd been sitting there for hours. But I don't like smartphones very much, I literally don't like holding mine in my hands and watching stuff on it, so I will quickly check email and news, send a couple of replies if I need to, then get up and do an exercise snack. I'm making it sound really good, it's not always this easy and throughout my life I've had huge problems getting out of bed (and also going to bed: I've recently accepted that I too have ADHD, and I don't find transitions easy): but it's definitely better now than it was pre-smartphone. The main reason I got one is that I wanted to wake up with Ukrainian radio, since I'm learning the language. So the first conscious thing I do every morning is try to make out as many words as possible, sometimes I'll even look up a few words before going into my emails. Maybe that's what your psychiatrist means by "healthy dopamine"? Thanks for sharing your experience, you made me think about mine 🤗
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