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[quote=Anonymous]You have to discipline yourself to do it and then you will look to it more often.

I went through a bad period last year into this year where I could not bring myself to pick up a book. Everything I tried just didn't hold my interest. I never wanted to read, just to scroll social media or watch TV. I have always been a reader but I just couldn't do it. I'd killed my attention span and had been using social media to numb myself to all the stress/misery of Covid and everything and I could not get back into it.

Finally broke the pattern in the last couple months. Took two week long breaks from social media (removed them from my phone, blocked them on my laptop even). Wrote a list every morning that include reading (plus other self care things that help me) and if I reached the end of the day without crossing it off, I'd go to bed early so I could read a chapter before I fell asleep. I finally found two books I really loved and devoured them. Now I'm back on track.

Social media (including DCUM) steals your time and attention. You have to prioritize the other stuff you really need because this stuff doesn't serve you. I know I'm being a hypocrite because I'm on here now (I'm using it to distract myself from my kid who is in quarantine -- I should pick up my book, which would set a better example for him too!). But you have to make yourself do it, and then you will find it feeds you more and you will gravitate towards it more.[/quote]

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