"Filling the natural breaks in my day with an old video game has done me the world of good, even if it’s evolving my Psyduck while dinner is in the oven. My phone’s screen time is down by three hours a week since beginning this. In a small way, it’s helping me to stop comparing myself with others and begin to tackle some existential dread that doomscrolling seems to encourage."
100% this. A positive change, for sure.
How a decades-old video game has helped me defeat the doomscroll
Trading social media for Pokémon battles and evolutions in Kanto on a Game Boy Advance has been surprisingly serene
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)