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Writer Tests Two-Week 'Phone Bedtime' Routine for Nighttime Anxiety
Original: I Put My Phone to Bed for 14 Nights to See If It Could Finally Calm My 3:00 A.M. Anxiety
A Prevention writer spent 14 nights putting her phone 'to bed' — charging it outside reach on a fixed schedule — to see whether cutting late-night scrolling could ease the anxiety that hits around 3:00 a.m. The experiment taps into growing interest in phone habits, sleep quality and doomscrolling as drivers of middle-of-the-night wakefulness.
Why now: Interest in reducing screen time and improving sleep is high, and relatable first-person experiments on nighttime anxiety resonate widely
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- I Put My Phone to Bed for 14 Nights to See If It Could Finally Calm My 3:00 A.M. Anxiety · Prevention
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