Monday, December 2, 2013
Overcoming Digital Addiction
Studies show that the best way to overcome addiction is to replace your habit with some other activity. For example, running every-time you want to smoke. Our brain intentionally sends signals when our bodies need something. Like how we get hungry when we need food. When our brain tells us to partake in our addiction, we can instead do something else. This in turn re-trains our brain over time, eventually eliminating the addiction. Many of us have become addicted to digital activities. The best way to overcome the addiction is to find a suitable activity that will replace our need to consume digital media. For me, it helps to consider what need my addiction is fulfilling and find something in the same category, e.g., social acceptance.
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I fell deep into gaming addiction when I first hurt my knee for that exact purpose of social acceptance. My friends mostly came from sports teams and now that I was unable to participate, I had to find others. It started as a replacement. I agree completely with your process of replacing it with something to break the addiction. I find the gym has worked best for me and I have developed great friends. Even better, you cant become too addicted to the gym because after an hour or so you are so exhausted you want to leave :).
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