Tips & Tricks: Reduce Time Lost to the Infinite Scroll

Those of us with executive dysfunction and smartphones know all to well how easy it can be to lose hours a day to scrolling through social media without meaning to, or even realizing when it’s happening.
The act of switching away from one task (e.g., scrolling through social media) and to another (e.g., things you’re actually supposed to be doing) is part of the executive function of cognitive flexibility (CF), and getting stuck in the infinite scroll is just one way CF dysfunction can manifest.
If the infinite scroll is stealing time away from things you’d rather be doing, you might want to try setting usage alerts (helpful when so many of us also deal with time numbness) and/or limiting the time your phone or browser allows you to be on certain apps.
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