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How to Break Up with Your Phone with Catherine Price

Millennial Minimalists

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Is Your Phone Distracting You?

"I try to think of my phone as a Pandora's box of emotions and be aware that whatever I encounter, if I turn it on, is probably going to have an impact on my emotional state," she says. "In many cases, especially with the news, like you're not going to find stories about puppies on the front page." She adds: "We use our phones in the same way we use substances or drugs as a way to numb ourselves or to distract ourselves from negative emotions"

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