Aditi Nerurkar

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631 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard Apr 2025

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TED Talks Daily · Feeling stressed? The answer isn’t to “just relax” | Aditi Nerurkar · 28 Apr 2025 podcast

There's been a lot of data that shows that when you are engaging in this sort of content, and we all are because, you know, we are all engaged and plugged in and we want to be informed citizens, right?

It actually can increase your firsthand personal risk of PTSD, believe it or not, without being engaged, you know, while things are happening very far.

I work in medicine and I also work in journalism.

This is not about censorship.

I have always, you know, before I became a doctor, I wanted to be a journalist.

And I believe so much more than ever that we must be informed citizens.

There is so much happening in the world, but not at the expense of your mental health.

So there has to be some sort of boundary that you draw.

And the science shows that it's not about abstaining.

You know, this is not about becoming a digital monk and abstaining from technology.

technology and saying, like, forget it, I'm throwing out all technology and I'm going to renounce technology, that in fact, the science shows that it doesn't have as much of an effect on your health and well-being.

What truly makes a difference, like moves the needle when you're talking about stress, burnout, mental health with technology and creating digital boundaries is decreasing your reliance on your devices.

And so how can you create digital boundaries to protect your mental health while still being an informed citizen?

There are several ways that you can do that.

The first really quickly is grayscaling your phone.

Grayscale is a really powerful tool.

And I typically set my phone to grayscale during periods of focus during the day and particularly at night to avoid a concept called revenge bedtime procrastination.

We can talk about that in a second.

What Grayscale does is it makes scrolling less enticing and for lack of a better word, less addictive for your brain, less stimulating.

And so you're more likely to decrease your engagement and go to bed early, for example.

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