How I Got Addicted To and Quit the Instagram Rollercoaster
A story to make you re-think (not quit) your relationship with social media.
Scrolling through Instagram started feeling like getting on a funfair ride — the first few minutes are great but, if you stay for too long, you start feeling sick.
Ten months ago
I hurriedly turned the app off and threw my mobile in a drawer. My thoughts were racing as if someone had just turned up a dial on my already overactive brain. I was thinking about everything and yet I couldn’t identify any specific train of thought. I blinked my eyes several times to get rid of the mental fog and to really see where I was — “to ground myself”, as yoga instructors would say. I knew I was sitting on my sofa but I wasn’t fully in my body.
I remembered the scene from Inception, where DiCaprio says “You never really remember the beginning of a dream, do you? You always wind up right in the middle of what’s going on.” I hadn’t been dreaming but I felt as though I’d just mindlessly skipped a few scenes of my life and wasn’t sure how I’d ended up where I was. In fact, I felt robbed of that portion of my life and, frankly, enraged about the…
