A lot of the mental problems people have come with abuse of the social internet (that includes all forms of socializing on the internet). And my personal opinion is addiction isn’t a disease like many 20th century psychologists claimed… dependence (which results from addiction) is a disease that can be treated with therapy or in severe cases medications (such as hormonal production damage from longterm use of opiates), but addiction itself is a part of lifestyle. You change your lifestyle to something that doesn’t cater to an addiction (which is a habit that damages your mental/physical health and/or that of others because of productivity and social dysfunction among other things), you fix your addiction… and the people that know this can stop a lot of their addictions (sans dependencies that can result from addiction, like alcoholism). It’s just a matter then of not slipping back into it, a lot of the time it’s setting-related. If you’re addicted to video games… get rid of your game room, delete your app stores.
Get outside on every day that’s not clouded over. Get some sun (wear sunscreen if the UV is high). There are two categories of rays that are of interest, the infrared and the UV, the infrared has a positive impact on your cell organelles, particularly mitochondria. And the IR light can penetrate clothing and sunscreen (the photons have longer waves, and so aren’t broken up as easily as UV and the visible spectrum). When you’re indoors, some of it gets through (like radio waves), but a lot of it is blocked. Cloudy days block a lot of the IR (it scatters it, it’s the same mechanics behind the greenhouse effect) so you can skip those days. But get out on sunny days… even a walk through a shaded forest will be helpful (forest bathing they call it).
Long story short: there’s wisdom behind “touch grass” (even if it comes from someone trying to insult you, taking that advice can only do you good).
I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.
