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With my 1-2 combo of ADHD making me extremely easily distractible and prone to lose track of time along with social anxiety making me second guess everything, it’s frankly a wonder that I’ve ever replied to anything!
I have two modes; taking weeks to reply and sending a paragraph in response seconds after you hit send.
I feel this so hard. Is it happening to everybody else, too?
Yes. It is due to doomscrolling and such. Our minds can’t create new memories, because it needs at least 15 seconds of mental concentration on a single topic to do so, so it all just blends together. We also receive a month worth of new stuff in a single day, this overloads our brain. Most people who weren’t addicted to TikTok before COVID but then got caught in the TikTokification of everything else feel a strong cut between pre- and post-COVID.
I for myself have this half year last year where I meditated daily and did not use my phone besides gaming, chatting, calling and hobbies that feels like an eternity. I want to get back into that mindset but so far I’ve failed horribly.
I think it must be something else too, though. I’m a little bit of a weirdo in the sense that I don’t use or am addicted to any social media. Lemmy is my only social media, and I’m not on here for more than a couple of hours (if that) in a given day.
I’ve never browsed or had Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, etc. Shit, I don’t even browse YouTube like most people do. I do have a Facebook, but it was created LONG ago and i haven’t been regularly on there for over 10 years.
I’m often losing track of my phone cause I’m just not usually on it. And yet, I’m having this exact issue where shit is just melting together and my memory isn’t what it used to be. I see it in people around me, too. I’m only 30.
you say “get back”, so i don’t necessarily feel awkward asking how old you are. so approx. old are you if you don’t mind me asking? i’m an old guy now, and i’m always thinking about how young people are processing all of this information now. my gen was warned, but we definitely weren’t ready for it. i can’t imagine what it’s like to be born in the midst of it all. but the kids are alright. of this i’m sure.
I turned 30 half a year ago. I was a gamer all my life (got my first console with 5 that forced me to learn how to read). We got our first internet connection in 2003 or 2004, where I spent hours on blogs and such. I got addicted to Minecraft from 2012-2013 and to YouTube from around 2013 until 2015, but it was long term content back then, like 30-60 minute videos of full concentration, multiple videos on the same topic. I got fit and a gym rat from 2017-2019 (switched to iPhone), then I got the Samsung Fold and the android ecosystem made me game more again (emulators, docked on tv, mostly rom hacks). Then I got back to iPhone and with the loss of gaming I got social media addicted. First Reddit, which wasn’t that bad, but after the API-changes I ditched it and short form video content filled my free time. I got into meditation, more specific the focus on my own body, and somehow didn’t feel the need for those videos anymore. But when I failed a test at work, it broke me and since then I can’t get into meditation anymore. Heck, I‘m spending about 3-4 hours a day on short form video content…
Edit: my SIL is 20 years old and experienced fhat right after school. Gotta need to ask my cousin, she‘ll be 13 this summer
Time is a two dimensional force. One axis represents “time” as we commonly experience. The other represents the amount of starch in my stomach. Consumption of potatoes (especially fried potatoes) creates a divergence point into multiple timelines. This is why I was late to my meeting this morning.
I’ll save this for when that special day comes around 😅
