I have anxiety. What helps me the most is not using the phone. This is only me mind you and I am not giving this as a general advice. But I cope with anxiety by wasting time on my phone since its highly stimulating and it keeps my mind away from being anxious a little bit. Reading is low stimulus by comparison and my mind keeps racing back and forth when I read. If I stop carrying my phone with me for extended periods of time I find reading to become much more tolerable. It isn’t something I am able to keep doing for extended periods of time but when I do it helps.
Same. I also need large amounts of stimulation for my brain to not drift off to really bad areas.
But i have found other general ways of dealing with this. Spending humongous amounts of time in nature (privilege of course) and instead of reading, I listen to books a lot. The more i get used to the theory the more often i can also read long stretches.
I have anxiety. What helps me the most is not using the phone. This is only me mind you and I am not giving this as a general advice. But I cope with anxiety by wasting time on my phone since its highly stimulating and it keeps my mind away from being anxious a little bit. Reading is low stimulus by comparison and my mind keeps racing back and forth when I read. If I stop carrying my phone with me for extended periods of time I find reading to become much more tolerable. It isn’t something I am able to keep doing for extended periods of time but when I do it helps.
Same. I also need large amounts of stimulation for my brain to not drift off to really bad areas.
But i have found other general ways of dealing with this. Spending humongous amounts of time in nature (privilege of course) and instead of reading, I listen to books a lot. The more i get used to the theory the more often i can also read long stretches.