Let us Love Ourselves

Do your eyes hurt after staring at your phone for long periods? This feeling of depletion and tiredness is probably because you are suffering from digital exhaustion. Just like our bodies feel burnout after doing so much work physically, in the same way, our minds too feel exhausted. The constant connectivity online makes us disconnected from ourselves and our reality. We may feel good watching what others are up to on social media but that also leads to negative self-talk and comparison. Repetitively watching news online can deteriorate your mental health and impact it most terribly. The research reveals that screentime has dramatically increased in the last two years during COVID-19. With online studying and working from home, there has been a prolonged use of digital technology. While this may appear to be the obvious decision at the time, too much screen time can become an addiction for you, much like alcohol and drugs, and may cause you to develop ailments you haven't even con...

With the rapid advancement of technology, it has now become easier to connect with anyone from any part of the world.  Not only we can engage but can figure out every problem with just 1 click. Whatever we want to know, we instantly search it on Google or Youtube and get the desired results. It has become our best friend. More then our real friends, we spend time with our phones accessing our social media networks. We always have an urge to pick up our phones and go through our social media accounts. Whenever our phone is not with us, we get anxious to scroll through our Instagram account or Snapchat. Even if nobody texts us or there aren't any relevant notifications, still we want to see our social sites. All of these points towards addiction.  Actually, it's not the social sites that cause anxiety. It is the addiction of using social media more than a limited time per day. If you are like me who puts her phone down for a minute then again picks it up and starts scrolling all...