What tiny change can we make to better our mental health? Turns out, it involves something that we look at on a daily basis, our phone and tv screens. Screen time is having detrimental effects on our mental health, so how can we change this habit?
In this episode we discuss the negative effects of screen and tv usage along with the research behind why screen use is bad for our mental health. We also describe ways in which you can lessen your screen time.
If you want to learn how to lessen your screen time, then this episode is for you!
Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:
- Understand the negative effects of screen and tv usage.
- Learn the research behind why screen time is bad for your mental health.
- Discover tips on how you can decrease your screen time usage.
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Episode Highlights
What Are The Negative Effects of Screen and TV Usage?
- TV and Screen Time displaces activities like sleep, physical activity, and relaxation.
- Enables a feeling of having a lack of control of your life.
- The more social media the less satisfied you feel with your life.
- Screen time negatively affects attention span.
- Increased screen time lessens a person’s attention span.
- Screens make it difficult to engage in activities surrounding you.
- Social media causes an individual to compare themselves to everyone else’s lives.
- This lowers a person’s level of happiness, self-esteem and satisfaction.
- The blue light emitted by screens is damaging to our sleep habits and eyesight.
- Screen use contributes to chronic stress, depression, and anxiety.
What Research Proves Screen Time is Bad For You?
- An article published by Mark Hamer, Emmanuel Stamatakis, and Gita Mishra titled “Television and Screen-Based Activity and Mental Well-Being in Adults” is used in this episode to prove why and how screen time is bad for you.
- This study examined, “the association between recreational sedentary behavior based on tv and screen based entertainment and mental health in a representative sample of adults”.
- Study found that 4 hours or more of screen time a day can lead to poorer mental health.
- The study also found that keeping screen time less than or equal to two hours a day is the ideal amount.
How Can You Decrease Your Screen Time Usage?
- It’s difficult because we have to engage in screens with work and in our general lives.
- Make the conscious effort to engage in activities that don’t include screens.
- Build a habit of getting away from screens.
- Utilize bluelight filters.
- Choose alternative entertainment.
- board games, card games, listen to podcasts, and explore nature.
5 Powerful Quotes from This Episode
“The more time we spend in front of screens, the less time we spend on things that could actually be good for us”.
“The more tv that you consume or the more social media you consume the less satisfied you feel”.
“If they can get your attention, then they know they can get x amount out of you”.
“The less we have the better”.
“You know what that number is and you know the effects that it has”.
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