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Internet Addiction Restriction Prot...
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Day 11 of 28
jlr123 commits to:
From March 16 to March 24, track daily: total screen time, including what type of internet is consumed (YouTube, TikTok, etc.), and unconscious habits that lead to long usage. Log the amount of time spent each day in "My Commitment Journal". Some separate “allowed” tech (music, podcasts) from scrolling is Spotify. Include useful strategies for change that work or have not been tried, and strategies that don't work/pitfalls/triggers. List these daily as possible, and changes start post 03/24.
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My Commitment Journal
 jlr123
March 24, 2026, 3:33 AM
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March 23rd: Total Screentime: 10 hours, 58 minutes Phone Screentime: 2 hours, 8 minutes Computer Screentime: 8 hours 50 minutes Identified Problems: - Using the internet to alleviate social anxiety symptoms from social interaction or a lack thereof. - Isolating in a study room and studying for long periods of time with internet distractions. - Horniness - Maladaptive daydreaming/internet bad habits while at the dinner table, which include walking around with headphones on, listening to music, and engaging with exciting content. - I keep reactivating TikTok, rationalizing the price is worth it, or not thinking about what I am doing as I do it. I almost entered this entry point before activating TikTok, which means I would have done more work to reactivate it. Additionally, the reactivation of TikTok for productive means typically doesn't work well, but I want to make it work. - I still listen to YouTube/TikTok/Instagram/Netflix/Spotify while filling this out, possibly altering entries. Potential strategies: - Can maybe not think too much in regards to ignoring impulses, like I do when giving in to them, to prevent rationalization in regards to giving up to my impulses. Next period of report: March 24th |
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jlr123
March 23, 2026, 1:31 AM
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March 22nd: Total Screentime: 10 hours, 16 minutes Phone Screentime: 1 hour, 41 minutes Computer Screentime: 8 hours, 35 minutes Identified Problems: - Loud parents/hectic household/nagging parents - Incel ideology/relationship troubles - Anger-inspiring sayings (like on Reddit, where you ask for help) - Binging on Netflix and inability to stop watching (or feeling like I am unable to stop watching). - Anger towards my father and mother. Potentially good strategies: - Being out of the house for as long as possible - Joining some sort of club in order to get friends or a girlfriend - Stay away from social media, Reddit, and Netflix (altogether or for long periods of time/only visit sites during certain times/periods). - Tap into dark/evil motivation: Like Jung darkness (to enhance work ethic, discipline, and accountability (for instance, my desire to go to the gym to get big and strong so I can't be intimidated). Next log time: March 23rd |
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jlr123
March 21, 2026, 11:54 PM
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March 21st: Total Screentime: 9 hours, 6 minutes Phone Screentime: 1 hour, 14 minutes Computer Screentime: 7 hours, 52 minutes Possible productive strategies and beliefs: - You do something, and then you will feel like doing it - You need to stay away from loser/negative beliefs/people, even if they aren't responsible for their plight, and even if there is some truth to it. Usually, they are either impractical or wrong, so they are not worthy of being listened to. You determine what a negative mindset is, as you know what that is. - Doing things that some immoral people sometimes do (that are not evil, however, and which are actually neutral/good) is sometimes needed for success. - My word should become respectable/iron/concrete again, so that I follow through. - Should spend as much time out of the house as possible - Adopt the identity of being a disciplined person. You were once described as a robot + Walter White mixture (smart and disciplined/unemotional. Emotionally speaking, though, due to this, it ended up being a good life. Adopt this mindset/identity again. - Make sure YouTube exposure is only for career exploration. Identified problems: - Not having goals determined at the start of the day. Should create it at night. Should have direction before the day starts. - Environment leads to failure, needs restructure. Technology too accessible. |
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jlr123
March 21, 2026, 4:28 AM
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March 20th: Total Screentime: 12 hours, 12 minutes Phone Screentime: 2 hours, 54 minutes Computer Screentime: 9 hours, 18 minutes Possible productive strategies: - Want to feel discomfort and be disciplined -Goals based on positive emotions or getting better, actions to get there based on discipline -Detach, like imprison self inside yourself to be disciplined and get work done, or do things you don't want to do. -TikTok accountability channel -Meditation -Involve friends for Accountability or Supporters -Involve ChatGPT for Accountability -Gamify life Good ideas: - Working hard = Hard work + Smart work - Goals should be narrowed down, though. - Should focus on logic and outcome over feelings in the moment. -Make studying for MCAT fun/have fun with it/find interest in it. Additional identified problems: - Maladaptive Daydreaming. - Starting and restarting over and over again. - Focusing on feelings too much over logic and outcome. Triggers: - Politics/controversial world events (especially identity politics surrounding class, and to a slightly lesser extent, race, gender, who I was born to, my place in the world, choice, free will, morality, etc.). - Strong emotions (shame, anger, nostalgia, depression (like when remembering playing Gmod earlier in life and Tf2 earlier in life), nostalgia generally). Next entry: March 21st |
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