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I want to start by asking you an uncomfortable question.

How many hours have you spent on your phone today?

For me, oh God, it's...

Actually, you know what, never mind.

I don't want to say,

it's more than one hour, less than eight. Let's leave it at that. And at least, anecdotally,

excessive phone use, social media addiction, digital burnout, all seem to be worse than ever.

Enter the digital minimalist. My screen time was going up to sort of nine hours a day.

Lots of that was on social media itself. A growing group of people are going without the smartphone in favor of just about anything that doesn't have a screen. What followed was a feeling of self-love.

I felt like I was taking care of myself. A lot of the participants experience a discomfort in facing a slower pace in life.

I'm Sana Khadar, and today, on All In the Mind, meet the people ditching their technological

tethers and how you can do it too.

This story from the show's senior producer

James Bullen. I'd kind of gone through my 20s on fairly automatic pilot, which I don't think's

unusual for lots of people whilst you're working out the world and as an adult. This is Charlie Rewilding. She's a writer

and an artist from the UK. And at 30 I kind of woke up and thought, okay, I've been on automatic pilot.

I'm not sure I'm living in alignment with who I actually am deep down. How can I work out,

you know, who that is so that I can make changes in my life to feel more aligned.

And part of that process, I found out that I am autistic and that I have ADHD, which was a surprise in some ways, in others not, but I at the time didn't know whether I had people in my

surroundings in real life who were also going through something similar. So I turned to

the internet and I essentially started creating content around my experience. I was also going

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