Setting my phone to grayscale killed my doomscrolling in 2 weeks

I kept picking up my phone without even thinking, and before I knew it 45 minutes were gone just looking at nonsense. My screen time app said 6 hours a day, which was honestly embarrassing. I tried app timers, deleting social media, even putting my phone in another room, but nothing stuck. Then my buddy in Chicago mentioned that his therapist told him to turn on grayscale mode. I set it up last Monday and the difference is wild. Everything looks boring, like a newspaper that's also a brick. I actually put my phone down after 10 minutes now because there's no dopamine hit from colors. Has anyone else tried this? Did it work or did you just get used to it and go back to normal colors?

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amy_sanchez1mo ago

The grayscale thing is real, my screen time dropped by half too and now my phone just looks like a sad little brick.