What App Eats Up Most of Your Screen Time — and Do You Even Feel Bad About It? (From a Pregnant Alt Wife at 23)

What app eats up most of your screen time — and do you even feel bad about it?

if i’m being completely honest… it’s tiktok and instagram that eat up most of my screen time right now

• i’ll open the app “just for a minute” and suddenly an hour has passed while i’m scrolling through alt fashion, pregnancy journeys, and cute animal videos

• pregnancy has me tired and emotional a lot, so these apps have become my little escape when i can’t sleep or when my mind starts racing about the future

• emotionally?

it’s a mixed bag

• sometimes it makes me feel connected and inspired… but other times i catch myself comparing my body, my life, my pregnancy to everyone else’s highlight reels and it leaves me feeling insecure and not enough

• i’ve caught myself doomscrolling at 3am feeling anxious about motherhood, then feeling guilty for not resting like i should be

• i don’t feel completely bad about it… it’s how i relax sometimes

• but i do want to be more mindful now that our little girl is coming

• i don’t want her growing up seeing me glued to my phone all the time

what about you? what app steals most of your time? do you feel guilty about it or has it become part of how you cope?

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