A Night in the Life: How My Phone Takes Over
“Friends that I keep texting are experiencing the same type of mental health consequences: anxiety, paranoia, bipolar affective disorder. None of us are letting our bodies relax, sleep, or eat on proper scheduling, resulting in overall health changes for our bodies.”
Every night, instead of sleeping, I’m scrolling constantly, not worrying about getting rest or keeping my sleeping schedule tight. I never get those same 8 to 9 hours of sleep for the next day of school, even though I need them.
Knowing that the following morning is full of priorities and work, my mental care should be the top concern, but because of how impulsive I am while using my phone, I stay up late on school nights, not meeting my own expectations. It’s like my phone is my worst enemy.
All of this leads to repetitive behavior – scrolling, checking what’s new on Tik Tok, viewing daily creators and their content, all of this distracting me from the necessary rest my body needs in order to operate properly.
After a while I’m still surfacing on my “for you” page as the time is passing by. When the clock hits 10:00 pm on the dot, getting closer to the next day, I know I should be asleep, not intaking outrageous amounts of social media’s news (and fake news).
And yet, I’m sending other friends who are still up to the same videos I’m watching, enabling this impulsive habit that I have picked up from getting consumed by the media. I'm Watching trailers like the new “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire,” or“Kung Fu Panda 4,” or “Sonic the HedgeHog 3.” These new movies I am sending to my friends on Tik Tok force our minds and bodies to still pump energy because of how dope the CGI and Visual Effects are, all these colors and animations creating the storyline and keeping us up. There’s Godzilla running toward an enemy, Kung Fu Panda having to fight a villain, and Sonic finding out there’s a replica of himself on earth. It’s alive on my phone, keeping me awake.
Experiencing all of these exciting emotions up late at night with my friends sharing the same reaction when we are all still drained makes me forget any and all responsibility I should have. Sooner than I think, the time is already pushing into the next day with my brain feeling overly drained.
Even with me knowing I should really go to bed, I stay scrolling nonstop, letting the time get later and later to almost 12:00 am, disregarding the fact that my mental rest isn’t getting the proper care.
Friends that I keep texting are experiencing the same type of mental health consequences: anxiety, paranoia, bipolar affective disorder. None of us are letting our bodies relax, sleep, or eat on proper scheduling, resulting in overall health changes for our bodies.
Avoiding these consequences could be so simple. We could just put down the devices and be more responsible for the actions we are committing for the greater good of our body’s rest. Having a schedule that is totally setting us up for failure is only distracting to ourselves; it’s like our lives are like Tik Tok, with a never ending “for you page” scroll zoning us out from our world, completely knocking us further away from what we need to do.
This causes life to plummet and work to pile up, creating more of a hassle to complete the assignments and important matters at hand, keeping the same unhealthy lifestyle consistent.