Do you find yourself impulsively getting on your phone and hitting the refresh button?

Here's the 15 second hack to stop doomscrolling. Want to be as calm as this pup? Here's what you need to do. When we're looking at screens, our brain is getting a big dump of norepinephrine. Norepinephrine can make us feel really excited, but it could also make us feel anxious and stressed. Here's another problem with that. When we put our phones away and turn off the screens, that norepinephrine in the brain goes down and we feel like we're crashing in times of uncertainty. When we feel like we're not getting our natural levels of dopamine, we start to crave that norepinephrine spike even more so. So maybe you're getting this impulse to just mindlessly pick up your phone and refresh. Set it down, you pick it up again and you hit refresh. Or maybe you're like me and you're doom scrolling. So here's what you need to do. Every time you get the urge to pick up your phone, I want you to stop and I want you to breathe for 15 seconds. After the 15 seconds has passed, if you still want to pick up your phone, you can do it, but then you're doing it from your own agency as opposed to reinforcing that impulse pathway in your brain. Be sure to share this with your friends. If you know anybody right now who's catching themselves feeling anxious, overstimulated, and maybe getting stuck in the doom scroll.