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Should I destroy my smart phone and buy a dumb phone?

Should I destroy my smart phone and buy a dumb phone?

Hi SANE forums, So I haven't been too flash lately, still suffering from OCD and depression. Still trapped in a negative cycle where I don't get out of bed till after lunch. Still plagued by health anxiety and self-defeating thinking. But the agoraphobia has gone which is good!

I have also been having a lot of health anxiety lately, where I worry about cancer, heart disease and other horrible ****.

So, I had a bit of insight into all this and realized that throughout all this is my mobile phone. The reason that I don't get up is because I lay in bed reading my smart phone - the news, F*cebook and Y*uTube. I go to the same sites repeatedly for hours until I get up at 1-2pm. It doesn't achieve anything and my severe health anxiety is fed by stories on m*n and n*ne. Stories about heart attack and cancer victims, it is so depressing reading about it and then I obsess that I have the disorders!

I got into this habit during my benzodiazepine class drug withdrawal that I posted about - originally, I had a lot of weird neurological symptoms (that have abated somewhat now) but they were so bad originally that all I could do is lock myself in my bedroom and surf my phone.

I'm wondering if a lot of my issues would be solved by destroying my smart phone and buying a dumb flip phone that can't surf the net? I would not lay in bed with nothing to do, I would not be constantly distracted by rubbish on the net and my hypochondria wouldn't be fed. Does this sound like a good idea? Maybe the horrible depression would lift? I know of course a lot of this is caused by being off benzodiazepines for good now, before the drug turned on me - it took away a lot of fear. I had no health anxiety or panic. Now what I thought was a major and effective coping strategy is gone. Anyways.

Thanks for any advice.

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Not a problem @Dothemo
Hopefully it helps you ❤
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