Q&A for How to Stop Being a YouTube Addict

Carve out a specific amount of screen time each day rather than pulling out your phone constantly. A happy medium could be writing down all the errands and curiosities you'd like to search online in a notebook, and then giving yourself an hour later on to explore everything on the list.

You strain your eyes, concern others about your welfare, lose a big chunk of your life and confirm that you have a problem.

If you feel like your YouTube habits are a problem, they likely are. If watching YouTube gets in the way of other aspects of your life, like meeting deadlines, doing chores or getting enough sleep, follow the steps in this wikiHow to stop being an addict.

More likely, making it worse. It feels good in the moment to escape or be entertained, but you're really just avoiding living. It's very important to take good care of yourself, to exercise, and to do more active (as opposed to passive) activities. Check out How to Deal with Depression and How to Protect Your Mind With Brain Foods for some useful guidelines.

I think it is a problem if the videos are making her behave aggressively. Sometimes kids get into media too early because they have no activities or "challenges" in their life. Maybe you and your family members could spend more time with her and do some offline activities. The time you´ll spend together will show her different opportunities and improve her social skills. You might also tell her (when she's not distracted by videos) that it hurts your feelings when she tells you to shut up.

Whenever you see a video that you want to watch that is not educational, drop your electronic device immediately. I understand exactly what you do. I often browse on YouTube for crafts, DIYS, and healthy meals. When you have the urge to watch a new video, try focusing on another task or hobby like exercise, TV, painting, or reading.

It depends on your. If your addiction is in the early stages it, it will take less time to stop yourself. If your addiction is been going on for a long time, then it can take a while. The Chrome web store has extensions that may help you, namely TimeWarp and StayFocused.

No, addiction is when you constantly do something to the detriment of other things. If you can stop whenever you want, you're not addicted.

Go outside and find something to enjoy. Try to set a challenge for yourself (e.g. not watch for a day or only watch 2 short videos) and do something else.

A limit of 30-minutes is probably reasonable.

It depends. Are you always watching YouTube while doing other things? Do you feel like you can't stop watching YouTube? It might be a good idea to take a YouTube break for a while if you're concerned. I also don't recommend watching YouTube while doing other things, because when you do that you're not giving your full attention to the task at hand.

Try listening to white noise instead, such as the sound of a fan, rain, etc.

Set a timer for yourself and turn of YouTube for the day as soon as it goes off. If there are more videos you want to watch, save them for tomorrow.

That depends on whether you feel that you're learning during this time, or if it could be better spent. If you feel like it's excessive, then you may want to scale back. If you're comfortable with it and no other areas of your life are going neglected, then enjoy.

Search questions you have on Google and select the "Videos" option just under the search bar. This will show you videos available on YouTube related to the subject you'd like to learn about and you can bypass YouTube's main menu.

Have someone put your YouTube page under parental controls so when you try to watch a video you get blocked.

Try out a new activity that you've always wanted to try, and really give it a chance. Your brain is used to the stimuli of YouTube, and that's why you find everything else boring right now, but if you slowly stop using YouTube and start doing other things, you'll find it gets a lot easier.

Before starting up the educational video, crop your window so you can't see the side bar with video suggestions. Or you can turn on theater mode, helping you concentrate more on what your watching rather than what's on the side. After watching the video, quickly close or exit the tab so you stop temptations before they start.

All you need to do is go to your watch history and press delete all.

Announce your end of YouTube content sharing to your viewers and subscribers with a video telling them that you are respectfully leaving, and how grateful you are to have spent time sharing ideas with them. After that, I wouldn't delete the account, because all you hard work will be gone, just stop using it. if you're not sure you can trust yourself to do that, ask someone you trust to change the password for you and not tell you what it is.

It's not uncommon. Try to limit your YouTube time to a half hour at most, then take a break to rest your eyes, and come back to it later.

Find a way to block YouTube and other inappropriate content by using a complicated password.

Blocking doesn't necessarily work for everyone. Since it doesn't work for you, don't allow yourself more screen time than is absolutely necessary to complete your work. Set a deadline and an alarm clock. Once it rings, shut everything down immediately and leave. If you didn't work enough because YouTube distracted you again, make no excuses. Let the lesson sink in, understand the magnitude of the damage, and try to do better the next day.

Go to Settings > Restrictions > Websites > Add youtube.com. You can also delete the app.

Unsubscribe from his channel. If that is not enough, you can download a Chrome extension called Video Blocker to block that person's videos.

Breathe and reflect about why are you sad and depressed. Maybe something else is making you feel like that and you've been using YouTube as an escape. Try distracting yourself with healthier hobbies, like reading a book.

It makes it worse. It pushes you more into your comfort zone, and the deeper you are, the tougher it is get out of it.

A very simple way is to block YouTube on your computer or mobile phone. If not, you can hide it from the homescreen of your smartphone. Also, you can make it a habit to not watch YouTube. Try it for 3 days, and you will automatically not fell the urge.