Simple Swedish Podcast - #229 - Telefonberoende (phone addiction)

Episode Date: May 22, 2024

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Sorry if I pronounced your name wrong. If you want to become a Patron, go to patreon.com slash Swedish Linguist. Today we will talk about telephone-dependence. Yes, to be dependent on something is that you need it, that you have a need for it, you can't be without it. Many people are, for example, coffee addicted. It means that they have to drink coffee every day. Or you can be addicted to many different things. But yes, many of us today are dependent on our phones.

The phones are dependent on the call. Dependent on the call means that it creates a dependent. It calls out a dependent. So yes, you notice that in a few different ways. For example, if the phone is close to you, it is difficult what you do to check your phone and answer a message or something. You may have to check the phone all the time. Or that you get stuck in this doom-scrolling. That you just scroll through a flow for a longer period of time without any special intention.

Because often you just get stuck and just keep scrolling, scroll, scroll without having any intention with it. It may not even feel particularly good, but you just get stuck. It's hard to put your phone away, it's hard to just put your phone away. And you may spend a lot more time than you want to spend. So, yes, then you may have a dependent, basically. And I am definitely one of these people. I feel quite dependent on the phone. And I absolutely do not like that. I hate the feeling that I have some kind of need for it, that it's not me who controls the phone,

but the phone has a certain control over me. So I have long tried to find ways, strategies, ways to handle this to be able to feel that I'm in full control and I use the phone only the way I want to use it, only with the intention that I have set myself. But one thing that happens, for example, is that I have some kind of instinct to always want to distract myself. My brain always wants to be distracted in some way. I notice that I automatically go into certain apps. For example, if I do a task or if I work on something and it feels a little extra difficult, then I notice that I just automatically start

trying to find a way to distract myself and the phone is a very effective way to distract yourself. Or if I'm maybe a little extra tired or if I'm a bakis, bakis means that I'm full, if I drink alcohol, then I become bakis the day after. Bakis is what you call it. Or if I'm just a little down, I feel down, a little down, not so happy. So these times when you're a little back or a little tired or a little down, then it's extra easy to get stuck in different apps, for example Instagram, YouTube, Netflix, even news is a big distraction for me, but I know that it's not just for me. I know that many people have news as a little dependent. dating apps are also an app that can create a

dependency. I stopped using dating apps because I thought it affected me negatively and it didn't give much. I think that the phone takes more time than I want to spend on it. And on these apps, I want to live in the present, I want to be present in my life. We have a certain amount of time in life and I want to be present during that time. To be in the present, just consciously, not spend hours every day in different apps. Then it takes focus. That is actually something very important, because the phone takes a lot of focus. So it becomes harder to focus on what you want to do. And it takes a lot of different things all the time, it becomes very difficult to focus on certain more difficult things.

I personally get quite stressed and it becomes difficult to sleep as well, because if my brain is distracted all day with different things, then when I want to sleep, I have no distractions, and then the brain really wants some kind of distraction, but it doesn't work. Plus, these thoughts that maybe wanted to come out during the day, but couldn't come out, they come out when you're going to sleep. So if there are things that you're maybe worried about, that might be a bit tough. It's very easy to distract yourself from those things during the day. But if you distract yourself all day, then those thoughts come when you stop distracting yourself. So when you're supposed to sleep.

So it gets much harder to sleep because you think about a lot of worried thoughts and you're like, oh I have to do this, I have to do that, oh shit what's going on there? So I've noticed that if I give myself more space for my brain and for my thoughts during the day, then it becomes easier to relax in the evening when you sleep. But then I need to find strategies to limit my phone usage. I have tried a lot of different strategies

and some things I have done for quite a while now and they have become self-evident. For example, I have a very strict rule not to use my phone in bed and especially not in the morning. So when I wake up, I never take my phone and start scrolling and reading the news. Sometimes I read the media, actually.

It's not so good, but I make sure to first get up. So I don't lie in bed and just start using my phone completely freely, but I try to first just get up, not use the phone First, just get up, not use the phone for the first hour, and so that you give space for your thoughts, mental space. And that for me has become quite important. And another The only thing that is clear to me is that I have very few notifications. An notification is when the phone beeps a little when you receive a message. So I only have notifications on WhatsApp and SMS. I would never have notifications when someone has liked a picture on Instagram, for example.

But I have no notifications at all on Instagram, not even when someone sends a message on Instagram. But I can't understand at all why people have notifications on, for example, that someone has commented a picture or liked a picture or liked a story or things like that.

I really can't understand that. Because I get crazy if I have so many notifications. I actually most often have notifications on soundless if I have so many notifications. I actually have most of the time notifications on soundless as well. So most of the time I hear nothing from my phone except if someone is calling me. So most of the time the phone is soundless except when someone is calling me. And I only get notifications

from WhatsApp and SMS. So that for me is now a kind of self, a lot of vizings and so on. And then we have some other strategies and stuff that I have done. For example, I have tried to limit apps with time limitations, to just use Instagram max 30 minutes or 40 minutes a day. It works okay, but it doesn't work very well. Because if you have a dependent, you just try to automatically come up with excuses to do that anyway. So the only thing that actually works is to stop doing it. So the last few months I have...

I haven't stopped using Instagram and YouTube. Instagram and YouTube are the apps that are most distracting to me. But I started with a week without Instagram and YouTube. And that felt very nice. Because I often use YouTube when I cook, and when I eat. It becomes a distraction that I feel the need to... I can't stand and cook without watching a YouTube video. I can't sit and eat without watching a YouTube video. I wanted to get away from the need. So I did this for a week without any food.

Now I have started to do a kind of rule. If I get done with the most important part of the day, then I can use these apps. And that works much better because I don't think about the apps that much longer. It's a bit that is not something you think of as an opportunity. It works pretty well actually. It's often the case that if you want to limit Instagram to 30 minutes per day and only if I have done certain things, then it is easier to start with the rule if I first take a week completely without.

But generally I think that I don't really want to have a lot of different rules. So I think that I simply have to stop using certain apps as some kind of standard thing. I can use them sometimes, from time to time. stop using certain apps as a standard thing, but I can use them sometimes, from time to time. I don't know exactly, but I know that it's much more pleasant not to feel the need for the phone.

It makes me calmer, I feel freer. But it changes all the time what strategies I have. People are different too, I talk about my experience. For me it is very difficult to focus on different things and it takes a lot of energy to shift focus. So therefore it is important for me not to be distracted. I think it is important for many do a digital detox for a week, for example. See what happens. It's not dangerous. It's very interesting. Think about what things you feel you have a hard time letting go of, things you have a hard time not doing. And don't do that for a week and see what happens.

And I also think that everyone should give space to their thoughts, their brain, mental space every day. There are other strategies that people use. You can set your phone to gray scale, so that you don't see any colors, a gray scale, that the screen turns black and white. And then it makes it not as pleasant to interact with the phone. And you can put the phone in another room,

you can turn it off, turn it off for an hour every day, or so. There are a lot of different strategies that people use. So yes, it is still under development, my own strategies, but it is an interesting topic and I think think most people can relate to this. It's a challenge for us in the time we live in right now. Please tell us about your experiences and strategies. Before we end, I would like to tell you about the course Strong Swedish. If you think that these pod episodes are starting to get pretty easy,

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again. Have a good one!