What is digital wellness?
It is to find the balance between the use of electronic devices and personal life, avoiding the negative effects that can cause the excess of these devices, as it is proven that it affects our mental and physical health if we are exposed to many hours daily.
An example of physical and mental deterioration caused by electronic devices are vision problems, stress, anxiety, constant fatigue, lack of attention or focus on a given task, addiction and many more.
Diagnosis
To be able to attack a problem first we must recognize it and for that we have to make a diagnosis, today all cell phones have an application that lets you know the exact figures of the time you use your cell phone, if we go to the settings icon we can find the option digital wellness and parental controls, which shows us with details of dates, hours and minutes we have spent in front of the screens and in which application we invest our time.
Several months ago I entered this tool by mistake and I was stunned with the information I got. How I felt so bad, sad and depressed, I decided to forget what I had seen. 🥹🥲 Today again I dared to look for this information to be aware that the addiction I possess is making me sick, I share this as an example that could be useful to other people also motivated by the question that makes us today Inleo's calendar and what has specific relation with this community.
I am ashamed of the time I have wasted using electronic devices, the images I show are screenshots of my cell phone, they are the real and current figures of my digital behavior, they indicate that I spend more than 9 hours a day watching my cell phone as if I were in a real life job under the excuse that I have to create content.
And if I actually got the financial incentive to support my life with my content creation job, I wouldn't feel so frustrated with this data. 🥹
Treatment
Ironically, there are many apps that can be downloaded from the Play Store that promise to help with an electronic device addiction problem by performing a diagnosis, verification of usage time, and blocking those programs we see the most.
I took the test and downloaded the program that has the highest score, it seems to me that it promises things that are not going to deliver, you can not improve addiction to electronic devices with app.
Conclusion
The best way to regain digital wellness is to accept that there is a problem and commit to making a change.
Detox from devices by avoiding their use. Define a schedule to meet commitments.
I can't give more recommendations because i am in the diagnostic phase and i only share what my logic says is the right thing to do.
Technology is very important using it responsibly and only for our wellbeing. If at some point it starts to make us sick, it is time to look for a balance and find the balance that allows us to have wellbeing.