I became dangerously addicted to TikTok.

I would go to the bathroom, I would watch TikTok.

Before bed, I'd spend an hour watching TikTok. Everything is like information that I do not need. Hold it all night or last night and you might be like, oh, what was it for? Like, were you getting a bunch of shit done? I was literally glued to my phone. Like, it was like my eyes were just doing this. I deleted TikTok. I think a lot of people are kind of waking up to the fact that this

app is way too addicting and actually is damaging to your attention span and even your memory.

So the title is kind of a joke.

I know it says, do you have ADHD or are you just using TikTok?

But seriously, it can give you ADHD like symptoms.

I just anecdotally was feeling that.

I was feeling like I could not pay attention, especially to difficult tasks.

And I deleted TikTok about a week ago.

I've been sleeping so much more, like getting much better sleep so I feel more well rested.

I feel like I can focus better and I honestly don't really miss it.

Now, I do still have TikTok like an account and I'll probably post on there a bit. I don't have

the app on my phone and if I have to upload something, I'll just delete it right after. And I am

going to show TikToks in this podcast episode, but I pretty much just use it on my computer to research.

And it's really not that addicting when you're on your computer.

It's mostly when you're on your phone, it becomes very mindless.

Let's start with my experience with TikTok and why I decided to delete it.

There really was a few reasons.

One was it was starting to affect my sleep.

I would always stay on it in extra 30 minutes,

maybe an hour at night where I was kind of tired, but it just kept me up. I tried to just read

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