Quick tip: You actually don’t have to wait till the end of a free trial to cancel. You can cancel immediately after entering your information and the trial will still last the whole week.
I love that Instagram's algorithm concluded that because Drew kept buying everything they advertised to him, he must be going through something and needs mental health apps.
In one of his "buying everything" videos he opened instagram at the end to see what they'd advertise to him after all that and it was an ad to join a clinical trial for depression lmao
Me too. I was learning Spanish and ran out of streak helper things and I felt so bummed I just deleted the app. I hate streaks and punishment on games and apps
Me too omg. I was learning Japanese and relied on push notifs to remind me to use it daily, and I had like an 82 day streak. Then a few times too many I either didn't see the notifs or they just didn't show up and my streak broke, and I was so demotivated I instantly gave up.
@@rumblezerofive thats what i thought until i got grounded years ago and had my technology removed and had nothing to do except read lol and now im obsessed
Where does he live? 'cause I live in a city and you can't juse "go outside your house" for fun, you only go out if you have to, there's no point going outside for fun if someone is going to stab and rob you or hit you with their car. Maybe if you live in a nice little rural town with 2000 people who all know each other and there's no crime, but it's 2023, in urban societies you go outside on the street sparingly, unless you're totally comfortable with being shot if someone thinks you looked at them the wrong way, which, surprisingly, ost of us aren't comfortable with, so you can't blame people. Like the actual privilege honestly, of living somewhere so nice you don't have to worry about gang crime and people driving on meth while you're trying to walk to the store, but understand it's not as simple as "lol go outside bro" in most parts of this world, there are even countries where you can't go outside at certain times, it's literally illegal. So not shocking to me at all, not even a tiny bit.
I have to say it is very dangerous how obsessed we are with being productive It's definitely important to cut out things that make us feel like shit, but it's also important to remember that spending time doing things we love, even if they may not be productive or beneficial to society, is not a waste of time.
Drew is so relatable, my boyfriend and I watch all of his videos. If a deep fake came out of him beating someone up, I'd probably believe it was well-deserved.
@@mrbanana6464 sometimes reading makes me physically sick, the focus is just hard to maintain for my autistic self. So that or something similar may be a factor for people who don’t like reading
Whenever I feel superior to someone else for not having a Twitter addiction I have to remember that I literally do the exact same thing just with Tumblr and maybe Pinterest if I feel adventurous
I found that using Tumblr ONLY through desktop helps. The UI is weird as fuck and you just hop in to see what happened since you were gone, navigate one or two tags and then you go "i have stuff to do" and you log off
The apps are stupid, but the message is still important. Phones are super addictive and they aren't good for us. But am I gonna do anything about it? Nah
Drew's simultaneous awareness of and subjection to toxic dopamine cycles is very relatable. People always assume once you identify a problem the next step is to fix it, but nah sometimes you just have a problem you're aware of now lmao
"Toxic dopamine cycles" is one of the most unhinged pseudoscientific quips I've ever heard. Like your endocrine system is poisoning you because you play on your phone. That's not how any of this works. Chill.
@@loveitftw I have ADHD and I love it, I bow down to the capitalist overlords who want to monetize my mental disorder, they definitely know what’s best
Facebook/IG ads don't have settings to target people based on things like that. There's a lot that's against their policies, and things like diagnosis are definitely not one of the interests you can select. These ads are most likely targeted based on age/school situation, and then the more you engage with them, the more you'll get. Also, you can go into your settings and see all the topics you're being targeted based on, and you can eliminate the ones that you don't want to be targeted by. Facebook is absolutely scummy but there's a lot you can do to personalize your "experience" on the app, people just don't know about it.
24:43 I love the absolute timing of the universe when Drew said you could enjoy "the ambient noises of nighttime outside your window" and a car alarm instantly went off for 5 minutes.
"Well I finally did it, I went the entire day without looking at any screens. But I should check the time on my watch to make sure the day is actually done." ... "Shit"
As someone with adhd I can confirm, we do not need push notifications to do things, our brains already send us push notifications like “hey you should do the dishes” but we just forget by the time we’re done with our 30 second task we’re currently doing.
@@alanarohrbach3669 I love and hate that we're all stuck here together for the same reasons. Anyway, back to doomscrolling twitter and forgetting this informative video about making lifelong changes to be more productive!
I actually learned a lot about having grit in my college prep class. A huge part of making goals is never to make them seem like you're avoiding anything. It's more about adding something new to your life. The human mind can't work on restrictions but it can work on new experiences. So if you want to be healthier for example don't make it about cutting out candy, make it about trying a new vegetable with your dinner meal. Sure, it might not be something you end up enjoying but supplementing out the old stuff by just trying something healthier for your brain or body is really what will encourage you to keep going.
As someone with ADHD- I really can't express enough how important non-screen hobbies are for taking over that background nagging part of the brain. If knitting/crocheting/etc isn't your thing, needle felting is INCREDIBLY fun, and really helps relieve that restless energy
I've been loving crochet lately - it's perfect for keeping my hands and part of my brain busy whilst i occupy the rest of my brain with screen time :) (I probably have ADHD too, naturally) If I wasn't so against letting myself keep sharp things, I'd probably love needle felting - it's a hobby based on just stabbing things till you like them. And socially acceptable and legal stabby stabbies are very fun.
I love carrying around a tiny little notebook to take out whenever I have the impulse to reach for my phone instead. I saw someone do that in a UA-cam video, and I just thought it was such a neat way to replace that impulse with something less distracting
I also love doing crochet to occupy my hands! I especially love large projects like blankets because they are such a mindless repetitive stitch. I often crochet while in a lecture or when listening to music, podcasts, video essays, and streams. It’s super great to just have something to keep you busy, and for me, helps me to keep from spacing out in class lol
Drew, as someone with ADHD, THANK YOU for calling out how predatory these apps are. They claim to help us with our disability and then use it against us to make a profit. It would be viewed as despicable with any other disability, but because adult ADHD is so minimized and we get told our struggles are our fault, people don't care.
Thanks to those ads I will never be sure if I seriously have ADHD or I just think I have it to explain problems I face. My parents didn't care so I went to doctor as adult, to him it everything checks out (as ADHD, few talks, some fill out forms about life to that point) but when I see that EVERYONE has ADHD because tik tok or Instagram ad told them they do I really doubt everything
@@cyjanek7818 I think it's always like this. There are a few people who are allergic to gluten or lactose or etc. but since 90% of the people claiming to be allergic are lying just to be quirky or to receive more attention etc. the people with the real problem suffer from the banalization of their struggles. All the people claiming to have ADHD because they don't want to admit they are just lazy are undermining the efforts of the people with real ADHD struggling with their day to day life. We already saw this with the "autistic spectrum" which is real... for some, but not for a lot claiming to be "on the spectrum". This is my personal opinion, based on common sense.
I have crippling ADHD and relate...We see you, Drew.:') interesting fact, people with ADHD have lower dopamine levels as standard, meaning we will find ourselves chasing a quick fix often, also, if anyyyything even so much as slightly lowers the already depleted dopamine dump? We gon struggle to complete the task. Tis a living hell. :)
@@willissudweeks1050or vyvanse, or adderall, or methyphindate, or whatever combination of chemicals mashed together into a pill to make your brain do what you want it to do for once
Pretty much bi-monthly I decide that I’m only negatively fueling my ADHD with my smart phone and seriously consider switching to an old school flip phone. Then I immediately start to rationalize why I ‘need’ my phone and hyperventilate at the idea of not being able to immediately find info about the random questions I simply ‘need’ answered. Ya know, like who the actor in the movie I’m watching is currently dating, or why was the tapeworm diet a real thing, or what areas have the highest amount of light/noise pollution. I think after I get unpacked I might make one of the cardboard boxes into a makeshift phone ‘time out’ box. (Psh, yeah right 🙄)
As someone who deals with procrastination issues, this video pretty much describes the daily problems I go through when trying to find ways to increase productivity.
I have adhd.Starting a thing is the most difficult thing to do for me. If I want to do something I just close everything and look into empty wall until I get bored so I can start to do the shit I have meant to do.
@@exosproudmamabear558 Glad you have the willpower to do that! Sometimes I try but then either I get distracted with daydreaming or I think "oh, I'll just do something for TEN minutes" - 12 hours later it's 6a.m and I'm still procrastinating. I need to be locked in a cell lol
@@emstink Yeah it sometimes goes that way too. Daydreaming is a bad habit of mine too and I can do it for hours but sometimes it does work and I actually do the shit I meant to do so it is worth taking the risk I guess.
I’m a stage actor and I was having trouble figuring out where to put cheekbone contour. Then I realized that you’re the perfect example of where contour should go- you have very defined cheekbones! I’ve been using you as a reference, and my contour is finally on point! Thank you for your service, Drew!
You find the perfect place to put contour by sucking in your cheeks. It helps you see where the hollows of your cheeks naturally are and where the natural shadow would fall. Always blend upwards and towards the ear and the outer face because towards the nose, cheeks tend to be less sunken in. I hope that can be somewhat helpful for the next time you contour!
My house actually came with one of those phone box things built into it, it's called "drawer in the kitchen" and it makes putting my phone away fun AND easy!
I have Tourette’s and people would just tell me straight up to do dopamine fasts because “Tourette’s is caused by too much dopamine stop being happy” what ended up helping with my Tourette’s was actually just anxiety management
YOOO Tourette's gang! The dopamine theory is irritating, I'm not gonna make myself depressed to stop ticcing. Also if you don't mind me asking, how did you go about managing your anxiety? Terrible coprolalia on my end
I have OCD and my parents refuse to accept that the obsessive behavior was developed because for years I had no idea how to manage my stress. Just refusing to give into my compulsive need to count every part of the door 3 times before I leave the room wouldn’t make it go away. It just means I have no stress output and fighting my compulsions makes me super stressed. Meaning I’m compelled to do it more I dunno if your situation is super similar but I can imagine you relate
Yoooo unspecified tic disorder here 😂 Yeah I’ve had tics all my life and they aren’t going away any time soon. I’m on meds for them that kind of help? But I don’t see how reducing screen time helps…I’ve never heard of that one.
Drew, you should online auction all the weird products you purchased for your vids with signatures or something. You could send the money to charity, and then it won’t all gather dust.
Honestly Drew, you should just try Depression™️. It's a great way to stop doing all the things you love, and it even helps you lose weight from all the food you don't feel like eating! 10/10, would recommend!
I’m so glad you addressed the wellness app thing. As someone who has ADHD and struggles with remembering the most basic things and paying attention, I will admit that whenever I see ads for adhd specific apps I am tempted to download. They all promise a life that I desperately want; to not struggle with focus and memory as much. It’s always so disappointing to see that it’s really just people exploiting the very things those with ADHD struggle with.
As someone who got diagnosed with ADHD, I've learned the greatest medicine for it is reading, painting, playing instruments, going outside, and NOT GOING ON MY PHONE!
@Skylark as someone who's had ADHD since way before the internet was everywhere (and there weren't gonna be smartphones for another decade or 2), those things do not treat ADHD. It's present all the time. Doing things you like to do are always easier to focus on than things you *need* to do. Painting and going outside will help 0 ADHD people focus in math class or manage our time better or prioritize tasks without it constantly being a struggle.
I feel this. I don't think people realise that adhd can absolutely cripple your day to day life. do you think I WANT to be lying on the sofa staring at the ceiling for an hour mentally berating myself because I can't get up and do the dishes? of course not. it's not a choice, it's horrible
@@flyinginthewind111 Those things can be very helpful with mindfulness which can be a useful practice for people with ADHD, but they aren't replacements for therapy, medicine, or other proven coping mechanisms. Helpful? yes because they are good for the human body, but not ADHD specific
@@frogofalltime ADHD doesn't make you incapable of moving your body or performing tasks that don't even require directed focus. If you're laying in bed for hours while ruminating about things you should do but can't get yourself to do them at all, that sounds more like depression.
"How can i train my brain to enjoy what I'm doing if in the back of my I head I feel the need to always be doing something else" As someone with ADHD let me assure you that the neat part about this is you can't.
@zabbee2323 stigmatized? Because its a lack of discipline and self control. Misunderstood? It wasnt misunderstood until people started medicating boys being boys for conveinience.
as someone who also used to be addicted to twitter, I had the same “but I don’t want to miss out on what everyone is talking about!” concern as Drew. The thing that helped the most was realizing, like, no- no, I *do* want to miss out actually because nothing good has ever been talked about on that hellsite
deadass when I stopped using social media like that, my mental health got so much better. I try to use it sparingly now as a treat, like someone who cares about their physical health would do with junk food
i used to have my feed carefully cultivated to only show me fanart and non-discourse fan posts, but ever since twt became barely held together with duct tape and i started getting bombarded with drama, i realized this is 100% true. i've gone from being on the app all day, to only spending short 10-15 minute bursts once or twice a day to check for new art since i know if i spend more time i end up just getting upset and frustrated.
yessss same, for me it was when the Russia-urkaine war started and I felt bad not looking every day. but then you just realize that no, you're not a bad person for doing X thing and it's fine to prioritize your own mental health. glad you got off that gross site
@@mysideacc2770 my twt feed used to be more curated too. I would spend 2hours like Drew since all I ever encountered were cats and things I personally found funny (plus the occasional politics or brain dead takes) but now since Elon’s taken over, my feed has been littered with sports for some reason so I never use Twitter anymore.
For me it was rooted in the fear that if I stop, I’ll lose track of the conversation and be outcast. Not just that I’d be left behind, but that stopping looking at discourse for even a moment would make me slip up and commit faux pass. Internet discourse moves so fast, and once something is decided everyone likes to pretend that they knew it all along. To not know is to show vulnerability, and once you’re vulnerable you will be cannibalized by the colony. What helped me is remembering that a whole world exists outside internet discourse. Even if I commit internet faux pass, I’m still safe, I’m still here, I’m still breathing. Nothing material has changed, and I have a support system of people outside of niche internet communities who also exist and breath and live just like I do. Remembering this makes social media feel much less urgent, and curbs my desire to open and scroll.
As someone who has actually been diagnosed with ADHD, I've never ever ever ever ever used a productivity app that wasn't just an extra layer of distraction on top of whatever else I need to achieve.
i download a planner/productivity app i get overwhelmed and/or distracted I uninstall a couple of weeks go by my world is burning and I'm procrastinating again I download a planner/productivity app i get overwhelmed and/or distracted I uninstall a couple of weeks go by my world is burning and I'm procrastinating again I dow-
@@JonezBBQ Definitely. It's just the line between, "allowing yourself to enjoy technology, without getting addicted, and taking time away from it". And, "all technology is bad, and you are a bad person for enjoying it." Can be fuzzied pretty easily.
@@ii_caelus_ii oh no I understand that completely. Everything in moderation. The problem nowadays is just that everything is basically instantaneous gratification, and our rewards systems are skewed. And the effective way to counter that is to stop participating in that instantaneous gratification.
Well that's what I would do I hate reading it is maddening for me looking at walls of text just hurts and if I do read I understand zero of what I just read I can't process the information and have very little imagination so I can't picture what's happening. I can do comic books though because of pictures and short amounts of words at a time though sometimes I need to reread what was said a couple times to understand. Same with reading comments on like UA-cam I think part of it is the adhd idk
I quit Facebook years ago and Twitter towards the end of 2020 and making the decision to get off of those websites has improved my life and mental health immeasurably.
22nd February 2023 I Uninstalled Facebook and messenger , then the 1st of march came off opiates that I'd been reducing the last year after 10 years daily use. Social media can be more mind altering than LSD
I agree wholeheartedly! I deleted the Facebook app off my phone almost 4 years ago, Instagram 2 years and Reddit about 5 months ago (was never a twitter user). I used social media heavily and quitting these apps has been one of the single greatest things I’ve done for myself.
The day I uninstalled Facebook years ago, my life kinda crumbled away, cuz I never noticed it was the most important thing I had. 80% of my socialization came from facebook, i spent the day on facebook groups being well known, but wasting time in meaningless arguments, caring about shit that didn't matter. Even so I'd rather have my current life than coming back to those wasted days, and I'm worried about the multiple twitter randos and reddit admins who spend their days stressed with those things
Okay but these new videos are weirdly comforting, like it's not just me but the majority of us feel attached to our phones and we've all acknowledged it's bad but we still feel helpless. Kinda motivational ngl
I mean it’s kinda required to have a phone, for work, for personal life, and for enjoyment. And if you don’t you’ll be made fun of. No one should feel guilty for being attached to their phones, the only guilty people all the phone and app companies exploiting that attachment
@@placeholderdoe I don't think it's good to accept the fact that you're addicted to your phone and not feel any guilt about it. The dependency and constant need for stimulation that we experience is unhealthy and damaging in so many ways.
@@poooopoo I agree that it’s unhealthy, but the guilt isn’t on us. It’s the people who designed the phones and apps to make them addictive and continue to
What about just listening to a podcast or music or a video, while doing something else? I feel like that's sort of a good compromise for me where I don't feel under-stimulated OR as if I'm wasting my life. Seek out educational content and also do something productive IRL at the same time. On a side note, phones suck compared to using a laptop IMO, and I figure the only reason they got popular is because other people aren't on disability and actually need to leave their homes every day. Remember visiting actual websites on actual computers?
He described my experience and exact attachment to twitter to a T. I hate it and everyone is dumb and it just makes me angry but I can’t help but get sucked into the anger vortex. So I finally log out to cleanse my mind then am hit with this overwhelming fear that people are going to say something about me and I won’t be there to see it and defend myself. So I log back in and get sucked in all over again. It’s a disease lol.
The adhd one is especially bad when you realise they're targeting a group of people more likely to impulse buy expensive things they don't need... the very group they're claiming to help...
I remember downloading screenzen when i first saw this and now my relationship with twitter is nonexistant and therefore better than ever. So thanks, Drew, appreciate that.
When cutting out things like social media and screens in general, it’s definitely important to replace them with other things, like hanging out with friends, reading books, discovering or re-discovering a hobby, going outside, joining a club, something! If you don’t replace the digital entertainment, you’re just gonna feel sad and bored and go straight back to it then say “I don’t want to try giving up my phone again, cause it didn’t work and just made me want to go on it even more”.
Depression definitely makes things harder, especially if you have the symptom where you can’t enjoy things as much anymore. Makes it hard to replace hobbies because some hobbies now make you upset. Therapy is good
Omg yes. I’ve cut out all of social media out of my life and instead found new hobbies. My mental health is so much better now (not perfect ofc but better). I’m not really tempted to go back to using social media anymore. I’m gladly staying out of the loop lol
Yes. I mentally devided the different uses of screens into "stuff that basically only makes me feel worse" and "stuff that is mostly cool, I just do it too much". The first category (instagram, Tumblr, Reddit) I just deleted entirely and never missed. But for the second category, I too have found that just doing other things is way more effective than cutting them down. Taking my time to bake something and making plans to play D&D in the evening cuts down my time on UA-cam effortlessly, unlike "only x amount of time today" rules, which just stress me out.
You're an absolute icon. Knowing that someone was literally IN LABOR, getting ready to give birth to a whole ass person, and listening to this video brings me a joy I can't explain. And I mean that genuinely, it's not just a joke, this actually made me smile. Knowing that Drew Gooden was a part of somebody's birth is just super wholesome. Hope your baby is healthy and beautiful and that raising a baby is every bit as joyful as it seems
@@Sugar735 Yeah you really never know…I labored from a Thursday night to a Monday morning with twins, all of my friends only labored a few hours, life’s weird like that.
If you liked that, then I highly recommend Sarah Z’s video “Bingnwatching is Kinda Bad for Television” it’s a great breakdown of that feeling, social norms around it, and it’s incredibly validating
5:15 For me Reddit is the worst. I am an actual alcoholic (fighting it actively) and I think Reddit is worse for my wellbeing. At least alcohol has; * Allowed me to make friends * Helped me meet all of my ex-girlfriends bar one * Helped me get laid * Temporarily reduced anxiety and stress * Tastes good * Drives away the bad thoughts Reddit on the other hand just makes me angrier and does literally the OPPOSITE to what alcohol does.
i know the bit is to comment something a bit mean but i just wanna say u have helped me during my worst anxiety attacks to just enjoy something in the most fearful moments of my life. thank you, genuinely drew. you are appreciated more than you know.
I really do feel for you in regard to your anxiety issues. I definitely know how awful that is. I have dealt with severe anxiety issues since I started Jr. High school and that was 1978. So it has been a VERY long time. I didn't just take it on and I didn't even know what exactly was wrong with me for over 30 years. I finally got help in 2010 and have coped a bit better, but I definitely still have those days when I am in horror most of the day. I waited WAY too long to do anything about it and I am paying the price now. So please get help if you haven't already because the sooner, the better. I sincerely hope and pray that you are able to overcome it and not feel so fearful all the time. I certainly know just how that can alter your day to day life in negative ways. It's absolutely not fun. Take care and God bless.
Its literally a business tactic more then a pro consumer move though. Binge watching on the other end does give the consumer more power and is a move that favors them more. The weekly releases and having the people do the marketing for the companies and be the hype machine for the shows to feel part of an artificial sense of community is in their favor, not ours.
@@charpool169 Oh, fully aware that is a business tactic and, for me, there's nothing wrong with it. It is not a zero sum game, as long as people enjoy it. I'm happy with the trade off of less choosing power (on whether to watch 1 or 5 episodes at a time) from time to time to be able to create a ritual with friends and talk about a certain episode on twitter.
Honestly that's how I feel about content creators getting early access to games. The internet will be spoiling it left and right, meanwhile I'm unable to play it for at least another week.
I hate it when shows that are steaming only release weekly and I can’t choose when to watch them or skip around, but at the same time I don’t like it when TV shows are filmed like a 12 hour movie ie with binging in mind
27:18 this is my favorite part of the video because I can pretend I’m in a grocery store pushing Drew in the baby seat while he tells me about Hello Fresh
Drew, you probably wouldn’t remember me but I was one of those 798 people you saved from a burning skyscraper in Tokyo last year and I just want to say thank you for being our hero ❤
7:30 That hurt to hear. So many of us have phone addictions, and for people my age and younger, they've been issues our entire lives. Lately, I've cringed at the amount of time I waste on my phone when my mental health is bad and how much my phone perpetuates that. What was said here genuinely made me go reset all my app timers to a lower number, and all day, I've been trying to get back into my old hobbies. I know you didn't wanna get existential, Drew, but you did. And I'm so happy that you did.
Don't blame yourself / beat yourself up for how much time you spend interacting with technology. Those corporations pay psychologists a lot of money to help make their products as addicting as possible, and most people still operate on the absolute bonkers assumption that a corporation won't do anything to hurt it's customers.
Listen bro it's hard to leave my phone since I have many things going on with my life I feel like I can't sit without the phone I feel like it's almost escapism to me but idk how to stop it but at the same time I don't want to feel miserable all the time
hey drew to take care of cat grass: water from the bottom every other day, keep in sunlight, and trim the top when it gets yellow/"frays". if u grow it from seeds itll last like 2-3 weeks and and if u buy it itll last about 1-2 weeks :)
12:25 Just a reminder to get yourself a preloaded VISA card (or similar) and use that for these things. They won't know there's not enough money on it until they try to charge it, boom, you either renew because you actually want it and now you get to make a deliberate choice, OR it automatically cancels for you 🤷♂️
I'm really liking the critical, investigative trend in Drew's video. It's extremely refreshing compared to the listicle clickbait content that runs rampant on youtube
Thank you for highlighting the predatory marketing towards adhd ppl. When you have adhd the best way to remember things is to externalize them. In my experience apps just set me up for subscriptions I forget about. Signs, post it notes, other people’s support or a box 😂 tend to work better.
@@askinredroads5132 brain going like. NO no eating right now there are VIDEO GAMES to play!!!... then 10 hours pass and ur starving but everything seems too long to cook. too much effort when i could be playing MORE GAMES...... Adhd is SO sucks.
@@crocdog5278 i mean maybe? worth bringing it up with a psychologist or sumn anyway bc no matter what that is its an unhealthy habit LOL theres lotsa pointers for adhd but if you get easily distracted... forget to eat, drink, take shower, etc, all because you get too engrossed in what you like... get random mood swings... have moments where you NEED to do something but all you can do is think about it because you just...cant. will yourself to do it. Theres sure as hell a possibility!
@@crocdog5278 you might. what the other poster is describing is a mixture of hyperfocus (gaming for 10 hours) and executive dysfunction (not being able to make yourself cook even though you're hungry), both prominent features of ADHD
@@drewisgooden No joke I have difficulty sleeping and I use his videos to fall asleep. I was just having a nightmare, woke up and decided to play his videos for relief.
Isn't that how all advertising works? Heck, isn't that how all PRODUCTS work? If you don't target those who need the product, then how do you succeed? It's like saying doctors are predatory because they target sick people for treatment.
@@SeraphsWitness I'm pretty sure they mean, y'know, targeting people with *memory problems* for a 7 day free trial that if they don't *remember* to cancel after those days it charges them a ton of money which they wouldn't recall spending and then these apps don't give refunds because the contract that no one reads says they won't. Its not really about what demographic they target, it's about what they do once they've caught the attention of those demographics; and what they do is specifically something that will harm the people they're targeting more than help them. That's what's predatory about the marketing/targeting.
@@marsh.al.mel0w162 A 7-day free trial is not predatory. It's a pretty standard industry practice. At what point do you hold consumers responsible for what they decide to purchase? Why blame a company for their business model rather than blame the consumer for making a foolish purchase? This is backwards thinking. There's nothing "predatory" about that. "Predatory" paints the picture of an ill-motived party taking advantage of someone who cannot possibly know better. Predatory would be setting up Pay-Day loan centers in low-income areas and charging 400% interest. And even then, I find it hard to not blame the foolish consumer. That's not what this situation is.
@@SeraphsWitness Personally I don't hold the consumer responsible when a company automatically starts charging after seven days when they try to get people who are likely to forget that they are going to charge. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that Drew said that the advertising and apps catered to those who have ADHD or the like or things that would lend itself to having memory troubles. Does that not seem ill-motivated? I don't know, it seems like that's what it is, a ploy to get money off of people they know will more likely fall into that trap. Not that none of the fault can fall on the consumer, but it still seems off to me. (Not trying to be rude btw that was just the vibe I got from the original comment so I wanted to add the reasoning I thought they might be using)
Drew I have watched you since you came over from Vine, I'm just rewatching stuff at this point, you put such effort into your concepts and execution, and your sense of humor just gets me every time. Thanks my man, appreciate ya
This video actually help me stimulate myself by not scrolling through social media while watching a video. Usually I have to have something in front of me while watching a video in order for my brain to be completely distracted, but watching this allowed me to just take a minute and just enjoy the video.
Yeah, it made me think that I've been doing that recently. As soon as something I'm watching bores me or makes me wait a little, I start playing or looking at something on my phone. I'll stop doing it because I don't think it's a good sign.
the adhd 'wellness' app reminds me of when a psychologist said that my adhd will be fixed by making to-do lists and schedules and then charged the same amount !
Dude my first therapist I ever had said something similar and it’s so stupid lol. Luckily I have a better psychologist now and she actually helps me make a schedule and shows me how and offers practical advice. It sucks there’s so many shitty psychologists mixed with the actually capable ones
My psychiatrist told me he wouldn’t change my medication back to the kind I was originally prescribed and had worked for years until I started exercising. He forgot that I needed the meds to be able to plan into my day when I would exercise and also make sure I didn’t get sucked into a hole of figuring out the best possible running shoes to wear and then never exercise
Drew, Coming from a 24 year old who followed you on Vine way back in the olden days of the 2010's, I am so proud to see how far your production has come, the passion you've continued to put into your content, and your ability to continue to distract us from the garbage fire the world has become. Thank you man, cheers on 1 Million views in 24 hours. Can't wait to watch you hit 10 Mil subs.
so, i'm not on the ADHD side like many of the comments around here (and they're bringing a new interesting perspective regarding everything to me), depression and medication messed up my cognitive abd memory hability a bit (first factor). so my therapist asked me to do a bunch of different stuff in my routine to "rewire my brain" (thats not how she talks, but to simplify). also it helps with intruse thoughts. many are very well known (all of them are from cognitive-behavioral therapy i believe but don't quote me on it) like: not complaining about anything for a week (hardest thing i've ever done in my life), brushing my teeth and eating with my non-dominant hand, taking a shower with my eyes closed, walking around the house (when you need to go from one room to another) with my eyes closed and stuff like this. to shut off or at least tone it down the "automatic" mode we do most things. it is much harder to listen to a podcast and going to the bathroom or your eyes closed at the same time. you might end up on the floor. so you force yourself to do one thing at a time. it has mixed results with people obviously, but i just wanted to share my experience as it might help someone
I can't tell if this guy is funny or if I just need to poop
it's the second one for sure.
lol
danny makes me constipated
LMAOOOO
same boat man, same boat
The irony of me watching you go on a dopamine fast for my shot of instant dopamine is fascinating
I was thinking this the whole time I was watching lmao 😂
Exactly this.
I was thinking the same thing lol
How’s 28 minutes instant dopamine?
@@dikshamaheshwari4003 because it starts the instant you open youtube lol
I deleted my social media apps and now i unironically open FUCKING GMAIL for that dopamine hit and i get like 1 email every 2 days
Damn, bro! I have the same problem!
@@armanghazaryan5353y’all should email each other!
this is so real
Gotta get the phone to brain direct dopamine pipeline from somewhere
I thought I was alone in this. We're the addicts who swapped out expensive coke for cheap coffee 7 times a day
“I will not be spending a single dollar”
He’s evolving. Soon he’ll be making money from these apps
Time for him to make a video about him making money using those apps that claims you can make a lot of money by filling surveys or watching ads.
I mean.. technically he is because the videos about the ads is making him money lol
@@misslovelyy7277so?
@@misslovelyy7277 we all knew the “technically” comment was coming. It’s just a fact of life lmao
he's saving himself 9 years of spending.
Quick tip: You actually don’t have to wait till the end of a free trial to cancel. You can cancel immediately after entering your information and the trial will still last the whole week.
You can't do this with Uber eats anymore. If you buy it for a month you lose it the SAME DAY you cancel
That sucks WTF@@byeFofiko1
neither with hulu. I canceled like a week in, and they immediately canceled my month free trial 🥲
@@byeFofiko1then order something and cancel it after
Quick tip: Not all free trials work like that
I love that Instagram's algorithm concluded that because Drew kept buying everything they advertised to him, he must be going through something and needs mental health apps.
Lmao
Damn an algorithm feels sus of you because you buy all the products it advertises to you.
mania
In one of his "buying everything" videos he opened instagram at the end to see what they'd advertise to him after all that and it was an ad to join a clinical trial for depression lmao
He also bought every mental health product advertised to him.
The long guy is standing in front of running subway child
I don't know what you mean by this but I give you my thumb because you're my parasocial friend :-)
personally i couldnt agree more
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Yooo i just watched one of your videos the one about scooby doo
This should’ve got the pin. Damn you Long guy.
Drew judging me for stupidly staring at subway surfers while he was talking made me respect him even more tbh
Ffrrr
Subway Surfers w
I know he said stop looking at it and I just couldn’t
its just because theres so much movement in the game and not enough in him to keep attention on him :L
Honestly though that trend of shoving subway surfers annoys the hell out of me
I stopped learning German on Duolingo solely because my streak ended 💀
Me too. I was learning Spanish and ran out of streak helper things and I felt so bummed I just deleted the app. I hate streaks and punishment on games and apps
Me too omg. I was learning Japanese and relied on push notifs to remind me to use it daily, and I had like an 82 day streak. Then a few times too many I either didn't see the notifs or they just didn't show up and my streak broke, and I was so demotivated I instantly gave up.
And I keep using Duolingo mainly because of my 1200+ days streak - can I speak any new language? No 😂
Schade
It made me start cheating instead of genuinely learning
i’m losing it at drew getting through all of day 7 with no thoughts of reading a book lmfao
Lol, I came to the comments to make sure someone said it.
That was literally the first thing I thought of too lol
Tbf I wouldnt read either
It's been a while since a youtuber released a book...
@@rumblezerofive thats what i thought until i got grounded years ago and had my technology removed and had nothing to do except read lol and now im obsessed
It is genuinely shocking that Drew didn't think to *go outside his house* once during a week long challenge to not use technology
But didn’t he make that joke about his car having a screen so he can’t use that either
@@ivysepiphanies I mean you can walk , unles your door has those locks with screen that has a code lock pin thingy that are probably super expensive
Where does he live? 'cause I live in a city and you can't juse "go outside your house" for fun, you only go out if you have to, there's no point going outside for fun if someone is going to stab and rob you or hit you with their car. Maybe if you live in a nice little rural town with 2000 people who all know each other and there's no crime, but it's 2023, in urban societies you go outside on the street sparingly, unless you're totally comfortable with being shot if someone thinks you looked at them the wrong way, which, surprisingly, ost of us aren't comfortable with, so you can't blame people. Like the actual privilege honestly, of living somewhere so nice you don't have to worry about gang crime and people driving on meth while you're trying to walk to the store, but understand it's not as simple as "lol go outside bro" in most parts of this world, there are even countries where you can't go outside at certain times, it's literally illegal. So not shocking to me at all, not even a tiny bit.
@@-desertpackratamerica sounds like a hellscape tbh
@@w0rmgunk it definitely is
I have to say it is very dangerous how obsessed we are with being productive
It's definitely important to cut out things that make us feel like shit, but it's also important to remember that spending time doing things we love, even if they may not be productive or beneficial to society, is not a waste of time.
The thing is, social media doesn't actually make most people happy. Many don't feel relaxed at all after a 2 hour scroll session.
Wow how deep and insightful you are 🙄
@@Supermoneygang12imagine being so insecure that you have to lash out at people trying to help each other
@@zeropat0000 imagine giving af 🤣
@@sturmfrei5853Sure, but the ad most of this video is based on isn't just about social media
this guy can sure do something for a couple of days
thanks
@@drewisgooden 🥸
@@drewisgooden he's welcome
@@daisycarbonell lie
@@drewisgooden he's not welcome
Drew is so relatable, my boyfriend and I watch all of his videos. If a deep fake came out of him beating someone up, I'd probably believe it was well-deserved.
"That child probably called someone a nerd on Twitter for liking Star Wars, Drew's in the right here."
I misread this as "someone beating him up" and I was confused why you felt this relatable man ought to be punched
There’s few people on UA-cam that I would be shocked to hear anything bad about. Drew is one of them.
I'd only believe the deepfake if the child won the fight
@@judyh3707 noo 😭🙈
I love how the concept of books never crossed Drew’s mind. He’s truly an honorary gen Z
You cannot take him from us!
Surpriiiiise some people dont like reading !
Your 1,000th liker is here LMAO
@@mimilune2746 That’s like saying some people don’t like talking. Reading is a basic form of communication.
@@mrbanana6464 sometimes reading makes me physically sick, the focus is just hard to maintain for my autistic self. So that or something similar may be a factor for people who don’t like reading
Whenever I feel superior to someone else for not having a Twitter addiction I have to remember that I literally do the exact same thing just with Tumblr and maybe Pinterest if I feel adventurous
tumblr and fucking quotev💀
Honestly, same :(
Real, just add UA-cam to the mix
Me with Reddit
I found that using Tumblr ONLY through desktop helps. The UI is weird as fuck and you just hop in to see what happened since you were gone, navigate one or two tags and then you go "i have stuff to do" and you log off
Honoring Drew's sacrifice, I shall embark on a Dopamine Binge
ok
I have never stopped being on one
Danny W
Nobody asked
Substances
I am liking this evolution of Drew’s channel into “teaching people how to avoid falling for mental health fads”
The apps are stupid, but the message is still important. Phones are super addictive and they aren't good for us. But am I gonna do anything about it? Nah
@@ewanwiebe That's the spirit! Oh wait...
@@andsoitbegins_He shows us how anti scam he is by purposely buying in to every single one 😂
@@andsoitbegins_ Eventually he will be broke and broken and we will know not to get scammed. What a saint 👼
@@ewanwiebe as long as you are thriving and reaching goals it doesnt matter for now, problems for later. ( just like smoking cigarettes before age 35)
hey drew thanks for donating me all your dopamine! It has been a great week.
share? 🫰🥺
please share with us 🥺
Could I get a few
double it n give it to the next person
@@lamibonxd double it and give it to the next person
For someone as nice as Drew, the “Oh my god, are you fucking blind?” was so perfectly angry and bitter. Beautiful delivery on that.
thank you drew for running the “trying this so you don’t have to” genre. only the creator of UA-cam could be so helpful
I know this has been said too many times but 1.5K likes and no replies? I’m boutta fix that
Drew's simultaneous awareness of and subjection to toxic dopamine cycles is very relatable. People always assume once you identify a problem the next step is to fix it, but nah sometimes you just have a problem you're aware of now lmao
Don't say that around former alcoholics, though.
This is how an addiction works
I get it... Sometimes what can we do?😅
"Toxic dopamine cycles" is one of the most unhinged pseudoscientific quips I've ever heard. Like your endocrine system is poisoning you because you play on your phone.
That's not how any of this works. Chill.
@@Drako9823 yeah😭 but i feel like screen time and shit is a little different bc of how hard wired it is in everyone’s life
As someone with ADHD, I'm so glad drew finally put into words why I hate those apps targeted towards me. It feels so scummy.
Fr!! I also have adhd and I fkn hate that shit
@@loveitftw I have ADHD and I love it, I bow down to the capitalist overlords who want to monetize my mental disorder, they definitely know what’s best
Facebook/IG ads don't have settings to target people based on things like that. There's a lot that's against their policies, and things like diagnosis are definitely not one of the interests you can select. These ads are most likely targeted based on age/school situation, and then the more you engage with them, the more you'll get. Also, you can go into your settings and see all the topics you're being targeted based on, and you can eliminate the ones that you don't want to be targeted by. Facebook is absolutely scummy but there's a lot you can do to personalize your "experience" on the app, people just don't know about it.
I KNOW RIGHT it's like "an app won't just get rid of my brain"
The most annoying part is they show up as "free" apps with "in app purchases" but they're actually fully subscription based and they waste my time 🙃
24:43 I love the absolute timing of the universe when Drew said you could enjoy "the ambient noises of nighttime outside your window" and a car alarm instantly went off for 5 minutes.
as someone who was absolutely distracted by the subway surfers in the background, drew really got me with the “hey! don’t look at the tv, look at me”
Same. That really caught me off guard but was so accurate.
Me too 😂
It’s at 18:49 for anyone wondering!
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i love the cadence of Drew's jokes. they always end. like this.
tell me why i read i this EXACTLY HOW HE SAYS HIS JOKES I DID NOT KNOW I COULD READ IN HIS VOICE 😭
I think they end more. Like this!
The Seth Meyers formula.
Hey mom. Hey dad. Let me tell you about. My day. At school. #5...
I hate that you knew exactly how to make my brain do that
“I stopped eating, sleeping and breathing because the internet told me to” Geez Drew you’re living on the wild side
Cam u timestamp? I don't remember were this is from
You don't get dopamine from breathing
@@laraalvarezzz2 No, stop being lazy. Go and watch the video again if you missed it.
Is that way everyone is so ☠️?
I get it now.
@@_Super_Hans_ hero. That's what you are!! The super variety lol
How can people be so lazy they can read comments bit not watch a 20 min video
I love watching this gullible young man do whatever the internet tells him to do or buy. He’s so me fr.
seeing drew wear an apple watch while he's talking about his no screens day is the cherry on top of this video
"Well I finally did it, I went the entire day without looking at any screens. But I should check the time on my watch to make sure the day is actually done."
...
"Shit"
As someone with adhd I can confirm, we do not need push notifications to do things, our brains already send us push notifications like “hey you should do the dishes” but we just forget by the time we’re done with our 30 second task we’re currently doing.
I feel so understood.
I kid you not, I forgot the other thing I was gonna say here. Good grief.
or we’re stuck in a 5 hour executive dysfunction coma
or if you've got crossed wires with other shit like I do you get scared of doing routine normal boring bs. For no reason.
@TheSportsGuru I also completely forgot about this comment immediately until I looked at my notifications now.
@@alanarohrbach3669 I love and hate that we're all stuck here together for the same reasons. Anyway, back to doomscrolling twitter and forgetting this informative video about making lifelong changes to be more productive!
Using a wellbeing app to block other wellbeing apps was the most unexpected thing ever
The no filming day was so well done, I really felt the impact it made on Drew’s life that day.
At this point Drew's next video will be something like "I exposed myself to radiation for a month, I now have three arms."
do you think I would get on trending?
@@drewisgooden yes
@@drewisgooden Three arms are so last season try 8 but then people would say you are trying to copy Octopus.
@@drewisgooden maybe if u got the phone box membership
Yeah lmao
I actually learned a lot about having grit in my college prep class. A huge part of making goals is never to make them seem like you're avoiding anything. It's more about adding something new to your life. The human mind can't work on restrictions but it can work on new experiences. So if you want to be healthier for example don't make it about cutting out candy, make it about trying a new vegetable with your dinner meal. Sure, it might not be something you end up enjoying but supplementing out the old stuff by just trying something healthier for your brain or body is really what will encourage you to keep going.
This is a good comment, thank you friend
That actually makes so much sense, thank you for this.
I always thought what changed about my learning habits from when I was a kid and this is IT.
thanks for sharing :)
Sweet insight. Thanks for sharing!
This was insightful!:)
As someone with ADHD- I really can't express enough how important non-screen hobbies are for taking over that background nagging part of the brain. If knitting/crocheting/etc isn't your thing, needle felting is INCREDIBLY fun, and really helps relieve that restless energy
i might try needle felting omg.... it looks fun and easy
I've been loving crochet lately - it's perfect for keeping my hands and part of my brain busy whilst i occupy the rest of my brain with screen time :) (I probably have ADHD too, naturally)
If I wasn't so against letting myself keep sharp things, I'd probably love needle felting - it's a hobby based on just stabbing things till you like them. And socially acceptable and legal stabby stabbies are very fun.
I sew or draw, but I always have a video playing in the background 😨
I love carrying around a tiny little notebook to take out whenever I have the impulse to reach for my phone instead. I saw someone do that in a UA-cam video, and I just thought it was such a neat way to replace that impulse with something less distracting
I also love doing crochet to occupy my hands! I especially love large projects like blankets because they are such a mindless repetitive stitch. I often crochet while in a lecture or when listening to music, podcasts, video essays, and streams. It’s super great to just have something to keep you busy, and for me, helps me to keep from spacing out in class lol
I feel like I'm on a dopamine fast of Drew content.
Felt. This parasocial relationship is about to get worse Drew!
Drew really took daylight savings seriously this year. Sprang his whole upload schedule two weeks forward!
Proud of you Drew. I haven’t actually watched the video yet, but I’m still proud.
Yeeeeah, most people who posted haven't finished it at this point
Edit: just finished it and damn.
Drew really going hard for content lol
I’m always proud of Drew
@@TheStickman419 “Drew really going hard for content” Always 😂
I think you mean Danny
@@death_herself That’s a weird way to spell Kurtis
Drew, as someone with ADHD, THANK YOU for calling out how predatory these apps are. They claim to help us with our disability and then use it against us to make a profit. It would be viewed as despicable with any other disability, but because adult ADHD is so minimized and we get told our struggles are our fault, people don't care.
adult ADHD ruins lives honestly
Yes. There really needs to be more help for adults with ADHD. Do they think it just goes away when we're older??
Its so stigmatized as the "little boy" disorder. Its so frustrating.
Thanks to those ads I will never be sure if I seriously have ADHD or I just think I have it to explain problems I face.
My parents didn't care so I went to doctor as adult, to him it everything checks out (as ADHD, few talks, some fill out forms about life to that point) but when I see that EVERYONE has ADHD because tik tok or Instagram ad told them they do I really doubt everything
@@cyjanek7818 I think it's always like this. There are a few people who are allergic to gluten or lactose or etc. but since 90% of the people claiming to be allergic are lying just to be quirky or to receive more attention etc. the people with the real problem suffer from the banalization of their struggles. All the people claiming to have ADHD because they don't want to admit they are just lazy are undermining the efforts of the people with real ADHD struggling with their day to day life. We already saw this with the "autistic spectrum" which is real... for some, but not for a lot claiming to be "on the spectrum". This is my personal opinion, based on common sense.
I have crippling ADHD and relate...We see you, Drew.:')
interesting fact, people with ADHD have lower dopamine levels as standard, meaning we will find ourselves chasing a quick fix often, also, if anyyyything even so much as slightly lowers the already depleted dopamine dump? We gon struggle to complete the task. Tis a living hell. :)
Wellbutrin
@@willissudweeks1050or vyvanse, or adderall, or methyphindate, or whatever combination of chemicals mashed together into a pill to make your brain do what you want it to do for once
@willissudweeks1050 wellbutrin never worked for me. i was on adhansia for a while and it worked great but they stopped making it 🙄🙄
Pretty much bi-monthly I decide that I’m only negatively fueling my ADHD with my smart phone and seriously consider switching to an old school flip phone.
Then I immediately start to rationalize why I ‘need’ my phone and hyperventilate at the idea of not being able to immediately find info about the random questions I simply ‘need’ answered.
Ya know, like who the actor in the movie I’m watching is currently dating, or why was the tapeworm diet a real thing, or what areas have the highest amount of light/noise pollution.
I think after I get unpacked I might make one of the cardboard boxes into a makeshift phone ‘time out’ box. (Psh, yeah right 🙄)
ADHD ain't real
As someone who deals with procrastination issues, this video pretty much describes the daily problems I go through when trying to find ways to increase productivity.
Same bro, literally everything drew was listing in the beginning has happened to me 💀
I have adhd.Starting a thing is the most difficult thing to do for me. If I want to do something I just close everything and look into empty wall until I get bored so I can start to do the shit I have meant to do.
@@exosproudmamabear558 Glad you have the willpower to do that! Sometimes I try but then either I get distracted with daydreaming or I think "oh, I'll just do something for TEN minutes" - 12 hours later it's 6a.m and I'm still procrastinating. I need to be locked in a cell lol
@@emstink Yeah it sometimes goes that way too. Daydreaming is a bad habit of mine too and I can do it for hours but sometimes it does work and I actually do the shit I meant to do so it is worth taking the risk I guess.
executive dysfunction babbbbyy yay
I’m a stage actor and I was having trouble figuring out where to put cheekbone contour. Then I realized that you’re the perfect example of where contour should go- you have very defined cheekbones! I’ve been using you as a reference, and my contour is finally on point! Thank you for your service, Drew!
This is so nice I hope he sees
This is so random but also very wholesome
this comment is so fucking funny
@@stadzh right I’m 💀
You find the perfect place to put contour by sucking in your cheeks. It helps you see where the hollows of your cheeks naturally are and where the natural shadow would fall. Always blend upwards and towards the ear and the outer face because towards the nose, cheeks tend to be less sunken in. I hope that can be somewhat helpful for the next time you contour!
the fact that Drew's wife is now canon in this universe is really cool
Actually, Amanda shows up in a good bit of videos
@@venicewright7126 well you are right it's just, i always think shes in afghanistan
@@platypusparasol9825 I'm pretty sure Amanda's said she's really uncomfortable with that joke :-(
@@limesandlemons1367 oh damn when did she say that?
@@limesandlemons1367 wait when did she say that
My house actually came with one of those phone box things built into it, it's called "drawer in the kitchen" and it makes putting my phone away fun AND easy!
I have Tourette’s and people would just tell me straight up to do dopamine fasts because “Tourette’s is caused by too much dopamine stop being happy” what ended up helping with my Tourette’s was actually just anxiety management
YOOO Tourette's gang! The dopamine theory is irritating, I'm not gonna make myself depressed to stop ticcing. Also if you don't mind me asking, how did you go about managing your anxiety? Terrible coprolalia on my end
I have OCD and my parents refuse to accept that the obsessive behavior was developed because for years I had no idea how to manage my stress.
Just refusing to give into my compulsive need to count every part of the door 3 times before I leave the room wouldn’t make it go away. It just means I have no stress output and fighting my compulsions makes me super stressed. Meaning I’m compelled to do it more
I dunno if your situation is super similar but I can imagine you relate
Whoop whoop 3rd Tourette here!
Yoooo unspecified tic disorder here 😂
Yeah I’ve had tics all my life and they aren’t going away any time soon. I’m on meds for them that kind of help? But I don’t see how reducing screen time helps…I’ve never heard of that one.
How about ppl with depression will they tell them to consume more dopamine 💀
Drew, you should online auction all the weird products you purchased for your vids with signatures or something. You could send the money to charity, and then it won’t all gather dust.
This needs more likes!!
This is a great idea! 😃✨
Yes this is such a good idea!
YES DO ITTTTTT
That's such a good idea
As someone with diagnosed ADHD all these stupid apps and planners targeted towards us are so predatory. Thanks for bringing this up!
and they literally do not work 😭
fr. my brain already has too little dopamine and they want me to detox?? eff that
"predatory" lmao
@@jhuliacaballero6977 how did this comment help?
Can't the note app work the same?
Honestly Drew, you should just try Depression™️. It's a great way to stop doing all the things you love, and it even helps you lose weight from all the food you don't feel like eating! 10/10, would recommend!
Or, on the contrary, it helps you gain weight from all the food you can't stop eating! 11/10.
@@red_dickfigures great point!
@@red_dickfigurespls 😭😭😭💀💀
Instructions unclear, body is starvation mode and I am gaining weight while barely eating at all!!
I hope you’re doing well
this just became a twitter and netflix rant 😂
Zanny baby 😘
fancy seeing you here ZanMan
Zanny in the comments fr
Holy shit zanny you have goated taste in youtubers
💊Zan💊-👴🏼man👴🏼
drew you better be getting paid double for your ad reads because i am always entranced by how brilliantly they're written
Simp
I’m so glad you addressed the wellness app thing. As someone who has ADHD and struggles with remembering the most basic things and paying attention, I will admit that whenever I see ads for adhd specific apps I am tempted to download. They all promise a life that I desperately want; to not struggle with focus and memory as much. It’s always so disappointing to see that it’s really just people exploiting the very things those with ADHD struggle with.
As someone who got diagnosed with ADHD, I've learned the greatest medicine for it is reading, painting, playing instruments, going outside, and NOT GOING ON MY PHONE!
@Skylark as someone who's had ADHD since way before the internet was everywhere (and there weren't gonna be smartphones for another decade or 2), those things do not treat ADHD. It's present all the time. Doing things you like to do are always easier to focus on than things you *need* to do. Painting and going outside will help 0 ADHD people focus in math class or manage our time better or prioritize tasks without it constantly being a struggle.
I feel this. I don't think people realise that adhd can absolutely cripple your day to day life. do you think I WANT to be lying on the sofa staring at the ceiling for an hour mentally berating myself because I can't get up and do the dishes? of course not. it's not a choice, it's horrible
@@flyinginthewind111 Those things can be very helpful with mindfulness which can be a useful practice for people with ADHD, but they aren't replacements for therapy, medicine, or other proven coping mechanisms. Helpful? yes because they are good for the human body, but not ADHD specific
@@frogofalltime ADHD doesn't make you incapable of moving your body or performing tasks that don't even require directed focus.
If you're laying in bed for hours while ruminating about things you should do but can't get yourself to do them at all, that sounds more like depression.
"How can i train my brain to enjoy what I'm doing if in the back of my I head I feel the need to always be doing something else"
As someone with ADHD let me assure you that the neat part about this is you can't.
Adhd is normal human behavior. You have normal human behavior
@@nategalvan3907 obviously? We are human after all
@@RagmaticalRachel adhd is fake is what im saying. Everyone has it
@zabbee2323 stigmatized? Because its a lack of discipline and self control. Misunderstood? It wasnt misunderstood until people started medicating boys being boys for conveinience.
@@nategalvan3907try get meds and see what happens then “if everyone has it” 😭
Drew looks like he was either born to be a comedian or a coal miner
Bro what☠️☠️
That’s so oddly specific but I can’t help but kind of understand where you’re coming from
i just laughed so hard i almost fell off my bed- why is that so accurate?? 🤣
50 years ago he would have died prematurely of black lung
@@SkiddlyBink I’m so glad other people agree with me
That box thing is actually genius cause once you buy it you have to somewhat use it otherwise the pain of it being expensive will haunt you
true. the sunk cost fallacy box.
Tell that to my Gym membership
@@deejaybee11 I literally came here to comment the exact same thing.
@@deejaybee11 Ow screw you, I didn't come here to get called out
as someone who also used to be addicted to twitter, I had the same “but I don’t want to miss out on what everyone is talking about!” concern as Drew. The thing that helped the most was realizing, like, no- no, I *do* want to miss out actually because nothing good has ever been talked about on that hellsite
deadass when I stopped using social media like that, my mental health got so much better. I try to use it sparingly now as a treat, like someone who cares about their physical health would do with junk food
i used to have my feed carefully cultivated to only show me fanart and non-discourse fan posts, but ever since twt became barely held together with duct tape and i started getting bombarded with drama, i realized this is 100% true. i've gone from being on the app all day, to only spending short 10-15 minute bursts once or twice a day to check for new art since i know if i spend more time i end up just getting upset and frustrated.
yessss same, for me it was when the Russia-urkaine war started and I felt bad not looking every day. but then you just realize that no, you're not a bad person for doing X thing and it's fine to prioritize your own mental health. glad you got off that gross site
@@mysideacc2770 my twt feed used to be more curated too. I would spend 2hours like Drew since all I ever encountered were cats and things I personally found funny (plus the occasional politics or brain dead takes) but now since Elon’s taken over, my feed has been littered with sports for some reason so I never use Twitter anymore.
For me it was rooted in the fear that if I stop, I’ll lose track of the conversation and be outcast. Not just that I’d be left behind, but that stopping looking at discourse for even a moment would make me slip up and commit faux pass. Internet discourse moves so fast, and once something is decided everyone likes to pretend that they knew it all along. To not know is to show vulnerability, and once you’re vulnerable you will be cannibalized by the colony.
What helped me is remembering that a whole world exists outside internet discourse. Even if I commit internet faux pass, I’m still safe, I’m still here, I’m still breathing. Nothing material has changed, and I have a support system of people outside of niche internet communities who also exist and breath and live just like I do. Remembering this makes social media feel much less urgent, and curbs my desire to open and scroll.
I have one ‘self-help’ and it’s Finch. It’s okay but they do want money and you get a pet and you get to dress it up
As someone who has actually been diagnosed with ADHD, I've never ever ever ever ever used a productivity app that wasn't just an extra layer of distraction on top of whatever else I need to achieve.
every productivity app I've ever used has served only to bore me enough to encourage me to open tiktok for the 900th time 😭
I've only ever found one that helps, the finch app... and I only remember to use it cause I put a screenshot as my lockscreen
Same they do not help me
i download a planner/productivity app
i get overwhelmed and/or distracted
I uninstall
a couple of weeks go by
my world is burning and I'm procrastinating again
I download a planner/productivity app
i get overwhelmed and/or distracted
I uninstall
a couple of weeks go by
my world is burning and I'm procrastinating again
I dow-
Not to mention the physical planners. 😭
Drew at this point is literally trying to ruin his life with things that he himself knows wouldn't work
And i eat it up every time
Dopamine "fasting" is actually extremely beneficial though.
@@JonezBBQ Definitely. It's just the line between, "allowing yourself to enjoy technology, without getting addicted, and taking time away from it". And, "all technology is bad, and you are a bad person for enjoying it." Can be fuzzied pretty easily.
@@ii_caelus_ii oh no I understand that completely. Everything in moderation. The problem nowadays is just that everything is basically instantaneous gratification, and our rewards systems are skewed. And the effective way to counter that is to stop participating in that instantaneous gratification.
It's all for the good of us, his fans
Drew never thinking to pick up a book & read when he couldn’t use screens so instead he just looked out the window with his cat 😂
shhh... he cant read
reading is as much dopamine as TV or movies and he was fasting
Well that's what I would do I hate reading it is maddening for me looking at walls of text just hurts and if I do read I understand zero of what I just read I can't process the information and have very little imagination so I can't picture what's happening. I can do comic books though because of pictures and short amounts of words at a time though sometimes I need to reread what was said a couple times to understand. Same with reading comments on like UA-cam
I think part of it is the adhd idk
Maladaptive daydreaming has entered the chat.
Hey king just wanted to say I miss you and I know your content is awesome and takes a while to make and it’s worth it but I can’t wait for a new video
I quit Facebook years ago and Twitter towards the end of 2020 and making the decision to get off of those websites has improved my life and mental health immeasurably.
22nd February 2023 I Uninstalled Facebook and messenger , then the 1st of march came off opiates that I'd been reducing the last year after 10 years daily use. Social media can be more mind altering than LSD
I agree wholeheartedly! I deleted the Facebook app off my phone almost 4 years ago, Instagram 2 years and Reddit about 5 months ago (was never a twitter user). I used social media heavily and quitting these apps has been one of the single greatest things I’ve done for myself.
Facebook can be very useful for some people, though I never use it. But twitter, for the most part, is designed to make people hate each other.
The day I uninstalled Facebook years ago, my life kinda crumbled away, cuz I never noticed it was the most important thing I had. 80% of my socialization came from facebook, i spent the day on facebook groups being well known, but wasting time in meaningless arguments, caring about shit that didn't matter. Even so I'd rather have my current life than coming back to those wasted days, and I'm worried about the multiple twitter randos and reddit admins who spend their days stressed with those things
I ditched twitter in 2021 and I’m so glad I did, that site ruined by ability to communicate with people
I laughed way too hard at the little moment after the calendar said to cut out filming
my fave part was when was like "hey don't look at the tv look at me!" he really caught me there
@@vertigoEdits I was looking at my tv no joke
It’s a great moment for sure.
Okay but these new videos are weirdly comforting, like it's not just me but the majority of us feel attached to our phones and we've all acknowledged it's bad but we still feel helpless. Kinda motivational ngl
I mean it’s kinda required to have a phone, for work, for personal life, and for enjoyment. And if you don’t you’ll be made fun of. No one should feel guilty for being attached to their phones, the only guilty people all the phone and app companies exploiting that attachment
@@placeholderdoe I don't think it's good to accept the fact that you're addicted to your phone and not feel any guilt about it. The dependency and constant need for stimulation that we experience is unhealthy and damaging in so many ways.
@@poooopoo I agree that it’s unhealthy, but the guilt isn’t on us. It’s the people who designed the phones and apps to make them addictive and continue to
What about just listening to a podcast or music or a video, while doing something else? I feel like that's sort of a good compromise for me where I don't feel under-stimulated OR as if I'm wasting my life. Seek out educational content and also do something productive IRL at the same time.
On a side note, phones suck compared to using a laptop IMO, and I figure the only reason they got popular is because other people aren't on disability and actually need to leave their homes every day. Remember visiting actual websites on actual computers?
He described my experience and exact attachment to twitter to a T. I hate it and everyone is dumb and it just makes me angry but I can’t help but get sucked into the anger vortex. So I finally log out to cleanse my mind then am hit with this overwhelming fear that people are going to say something about me and I won’t be there to see it and defend myself. So I log back in and get sucked in all over again. It’s a disease lol.
waiting for this guys sponsorship deadline to be up bc it’s been almost a month
almost 2 months
Sometimes it takes two months. I used to notice the pattern too before he switched up
there better be a new video coming soon or what's even the point of being subscribed to the guy
The adhd one is especially bad when you realise they're targeting a group of people more likely to impulse buy expensive things they don't need... the very group they're claiming to help...
He’s so addicted to twitter that he ended up going on a full on rant about it instead of just getting to the fasting part
Yeah to bad hello fresh is ass
lmao
Currently laying in bed watching this on my Internet flashlight, two inches away from my face. You know, to help me fall asleep.
I remember downloading screenzen when i first saw this and now my relationship with twitter is nonexistant and therefore better than ever. So thanks, Drew, appreciate that.
Drews level of self awareness is impressive
He is literally wearing an Apple Watch
@@LilyMaeBrass i dont know what your trying to convey with that comment.
@@crunchytoast4993 i agree like..?
@@crunchytoast4993 they’re trying to convey he had an apple watch on, duh 🙄
@@crunchytoast4993 he was wearing the watch on the no screen day
When cutting out things like social media and screens in general, it’s definitely important to replace them with other things, like hanging out with friends, reading books, discovering or re-discovering a hobby, going outside, joining a club, something! If you don’t replace the digital entertainment, you’re just gonna feel sad and bored and go straight back to it then say “I don’t want to try giving up my phone again, cause it didn’t work and just made me want to go on it even more”.
totally agree, deleting instagram is the best thing i’ve ever done
i wish so badly i could do those things but my covid fear makes me stay inside
Depression definitely makes things harder, especially if you have the symptom where you can’t enjoy things as much anymore. Makes it hard to replace hobbies because some hobbies now make you upset. Therapy is good
Omg yes. I’ve cut out all of social media out of my life and instead found new hobbies. My mental health is so much better now (not perfect ofc but better). I’m not really tempted to go back to using social media anymore. I’m gladly staying out of the loop lol
Yes. I mentally devided the different uses of screens into "stuff that basically only makes me feel worse" and "stuff that is mostly cool, I just do it too much".
The first category (instagram, Tumblr, Reddit) I just deleted entirely and never missed. But for the second category, I too have found that just doing other things is way more effective than cutting them down. Taking my time to bake something and making plans to play D&D in the evening cuts down my time on UA-cam effortlessly, unlike "only x amount of time today" rules, which just stress me out.
I'm in labor and this video helped me through the pain. Thank you.
You're an absolute icon. Knowing that someone was literally IN LABOR, getting ready to give birth to a whole ass person, and listening to this video brings me a joy I can't explain. And I mean that genuinely, it's not just a joke, this actually made me smile. Knowing that Drew Gooden was a part of somebody's birth is just super wholesome.
Hope your baby is healthy and beautiful and that raising a baby is every bit as joyful as it seems
Aw man dude! I hope you're througg it by now but if not good luck but also congrats!
Thanks for the idea. Planning to watch Jerma while I’m in labor now.
Congrats! 🎉❤
@@Sugar735 Yeah you really never know…I labored from a Thursday night to a Monday morning with twins, all of my friends only labored a few hours, life’s weird like that.
I like how drew is obviously a good guitarist but still plays guitar hero
Wow high praise from frank zappa
FINALLY someone agrees with me about weekly episodes - I cannot binge shows, it is so overwhelming. And have something to look forward to every week!
If you liked that, then I highly recommend Sarah Z’s video “Bingnwatching is Kinda Bad for Television” it’s a great breakdown of that feeling, social norms around it, and it’s incredibly validating
same it's my preferred method.
i only binge when the episodes are already out and im behind to catch up.
The way you're able to put these weird feelings into words is super validating
amanda's acting never gets old
amanda is so funny
I click on all of Drew's videos hoping Amanda will show up in them now
@@echsemia lol me too
5:15 For me Reddit is the worst. I am an actual alcoholic (fighting it actively) and I think Reddit is worse for my wellbeing. At least alcohol has;
* Allowed me to make friends
* Helped me meet all of my ex-girlfriends bar one
* Helped me get laid
* Temporarily reduced anxiety and stress
* Tastes good
* Drives away the bad thoughts
Reddit on the other hand just makes me angrier and does literally the OPPOSITE to what alcohol does.
i know the bit is to comment something a bit mean but i just wanna say u have helped me during my worst anxiety attacks to just enjoy something in the most fearful moments of my life. thank you, genuinely drew. you are appreciated more than you know.
this comment is very wholesome. I hope your anxiety attacks get better or go away altogether!
I really do feel for you in regard to your anxiety issues. I definitely know how awful that is. I have dealt with severe anxiety issues since I started Jr. High school and that was 1978. So it has been a VERY long time. I didn't just take it on and I didn't even know what exactly was wrong with me for over 30 years. I finally got help in 2010 and have coped a bit better, but I definitely still have those days when I am in horror most of the day. I waited WAY too long to do anything about it and I am paying the price now.
So please get help if you haven't already because the sooner, the better. I sincerely hope and pray that you are able to overcome it and not feel so fearful all the time. I certainly know just how that can alter your day to day life in negative ways. It's absolutely not fun. Take care and God bless.
I'm really happy to read that a video was able to help you with your anxiety. Have you read about other ways to reduce anxiety?
Emo ass but nice 👍
Wow, the binge watching rant was spot on. The sense of community is definitely a big point in favor of HBO
Its literally a business tactic more then a pro consumer move though. Binge watching on the other end does give the consumer more power and is a move that favors them more. The weekly releases and having the people do the marketing for the companies and be the hype machine for the shows to feel part of an artificial sense of community is in their favor, not ours.
@@charpool169 Oh, fully aware that is a business tactic and, for me, there's nothing wrong with it. It is not a zero sum game, as long as people enjoy it. I'm happy with the trade off of less choosing power (on whether to watch 1 or 5 episodes at a time) from time to time to be able to create a ritual with friends and talk about a certain episode on twitter.
Honestly that's how I feel about content creators getting early access to games. The internet will be spoiling it left and right, meanwhile I'm unable to play it for at least another week.
Too bad HBO is getting rid of a lot the shows that would foster that community
I hate it when shows that are steaming only release weekly and I can’t choose when to watch them or skip around, but at the same time I don’t like it when TV shows are filmed like a 12 hour movie ie with binging in mind
27:18 this is my favorite part of the video because I can pretend I’m in a grocery store pushing Drew in the baby seat while he tells me about Hello Fresh
Hahaha
Drew, you probably wouldn’t remember me but I was one of those 798 people you saved from a burning skyscraper in Tokyo last year and I just want to say thank you for being our hero ❤
7:30 That hurt to hear. So many of us have phone addictions, and for people my age and younger, they've been issues our entire lives. Lately, I've cringed at the amount of time I waste on my phone when my mental health is bad and how much my phone perpetuates that.
What was said here genuinely made me go reset all my app timers to a lower number, and all day, I've been trying to get back into my old hobbies.
I know you didn't wanna get existential, Drew, but you did. And I'm so happy that you did.
Don't blame yourself / beat yourself up for how much time you spend interacting with technology. Those corporations pay psychologists a lot of money to help make their products as addicting as possible, and most people still operate on the absolute bonkers assumption that a corporation won't do anything to hurt it's customers.
I'm reading this on my phone and I can feel my heart rising, yk what I mean?
This is so cute, I hope you can get the positive affects for your mental health that you’re looking for :)
Listen bro it's hard to leave my phone since I have many things going on with my life I feel like I can't sit without the phone I feel like it's almost escapism to me but idk how to stop it but at the same time I don't want to feel miserable all the time
It's definitely a gross feedback loop. I scroll because I'm too anxious for something engaging, then I ended up anxious because I'm wasting time.
hey drew to take care of cat grass: water from the bottom every other day, keep in sunlight, and trim the top when it gets yellow/"frays". if u grow it from seeds itll last like 2-3 weeks and and if u buy it itll last about 1-2 weeks :)
We need to get this to top comment
12:46 im cryinggg “when you last felt angry, what was your first response to that feeling?” “anger” this is the funniest person alive
12:25 Just a reminder to get yourself a preloaded VISA card (or similar) and use that for these things. They won't know there's not enough money on it until they try to charge it, boom, you either renew because you actually want it and now you get to make a deliberate choice, OR it automatically cancels for you 🤷♂️
I really need to do this. Thanks!
I'm really liking the critical, investigative trend in Drew's video. It's extremely refreshing compared to the listicle clickbait content that runs rampant on youtube
hey drew thank you for reminding me of the regret i will feel in 10 years for spending so much time on
my phone, it was genuinely motivational!
i was the 69th like just so you know
Yeah it was, and then I finished the other 20 minutes of the video and then scrolled TikTok while I was shidding. Funny how things work out
Thank you for highlighting the predatory marketing towards adhd ppl. When you have adhd the best way to remember things is to externalize them. In my experience apps just set me up for subscriptions I forget about. Signs, post it notes, other people’s support or a box 😂 tend to work better.
without drew i feel like my life is incomplete
may he RIP 💔💔i still cant believe the news
Yes I was devastated when I found out. What a horrible thing to happen to a person. My heart goes out to everyone who is dealing with the tragedy. 😢
may he RIP 💔💔i still cant believe the news
@@CricetoFunni I'm still in shock
Watching your videos is a dopamine fast cause they take any joy out of my body.
danny never fails to disappoint!
This comment deserves to be pinned
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This will be the pin of shame
so true bestie
As someone with unmedicated ADHD, way ahead of you, Internet.
I was born in the dopamine deficit. Molded by it.
@@askinredroads5132 Brain hates water and loves video games
@@askinredroads5132 brain going like. NO no eating right now there are VIDEO GAMES to play!!!... then 10 hours pass and ur starving but everything seems too long to cook. too much effort when i could be playing MORE GAMES...... Adhd is SO sucks.
@@MILOEBA Wait, that sums me up perfectly. Do i have adhd?
@@crocdog5278 i mean maybe? worth bringing it up with a psychologist or sumn anyway bc no matter what that is its an unhealthy habit LOL
theres lotsa pointers for adhd but if you get easily distracted... forget to eat, drink, take shower, etc, all because you get too engrossed in what you like... get random mood swings... have moments where you NEED to do something but all you can do is think about it because you just...cant. will yourself to do it. Theres sure as hell a possibility!
@@crocdog5278 you might. what the other poster is describing is a mixture of hyperfocus (gaming for 10 hours) and executive dysfunction (not being able to make yourself cook even though you're hungry), both prominent features of ADHD
TWO Drew videos in one month??? We’re eating good tonight, boys!
"Meat is back on the menu tonight, boys" is where my mind went
@@carment.duplessis9125 Drew’s back on the menu, boys
Did you use promo code IMALITTLESTINKER60 to 60% off food box?
@@Satnanat Drew’s meat is back on the menu, boys
@@whoisanarnb wait a damn minute
that no filming one pure gold comedy
this comment is pure gold comedy
love the cadence of Drew's jokes.
Great
He's John Mulaney.
this seems to be a scam account fyi
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Drew your videos are the perfect level of monotone to fall asleep to
thanks i guess
i use them every night
They make me fall asleep on accident
@@drewisgooden No joke I have difficulty sleeping and I use his videos to fall asleep. I was just having a nightmare, woke up and decided to play his videos for relief.
@@beanbagblast9295 Not shocking
Love the slight edge in Drew's humour when he talks about the predatory practices of wellness apps, the way they target the vulnerable specifically
Isn't that how all advertising works? Heck, isn't that how all PRODUCTS work? If you don't target those who need the product, then how do you succeed?
It's like saying doctors are predatory because they target sick people for treatment.
@@SeraphsWitness I'm pretty sure they mean, y'know, targeting people with *memory problems* for a 7 day free trial that if they don't *remember* to cancel after those days it charges them a ton of money which they wouldn't recall spending and then these apps don't give refunds because the contract that no one reads says they won't. Its not really about what demographic they target, it's about what they do once they've caught the attention of those demographics; and what they do is specifically something that will harm the people they're targeting more than help them. That's what's predatory about the marketing/targeting.
@@marsh.al.mel0w162 A 7-day free trial is not predatory. It's a pretty standard industry practice.
At what point do you hold consumers responsible for what they decide to purchase? Why blame a company for their business model rather than blame the consumer for making a foolish purchase?
This is backwards thinking. There's nothing "predatory" about that. "Predatory" paints the picture of an ill-motived party taking advantage of someone who cannot possibly know better. Predatory would be setting up Pay-Day loan centers in low-income areas and charging 400% interest. And even then, I find it hard to not blame the foolish consumer.
That's not what this situation is.
@@SeraphsWitness Personally I don't hold the consumer responsible when a company automatically starts charging after seven days when they try to get people who are likely to forget that they are going to charge. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that Drew said that the advertising and apps catered to those who have ADHD or the like or things that would lend itself to having memory troubles. Does that not seem ill-motivated? I don't know, it seems like that's what it is, a ploy to get money off of people they know will more likely fall into that trap. Not that none of the fault can fall on the consumer, but it still seems off to me. (Not trying to be rude btw that was just the vibe I got from the original comment so I wanted to add the reasoning I thought they might be using)
Drew I have watched you since you came over from Vine, I'm just rewatching stuff at this point, you put such effort into your concepts and execution, and your sense of humor just gets me every time. Thanks my man, appreciate ya
This video actually help me stimulate myself by not scrolling through social media while watching a video. Usually I have to have something in front of me while watching a video in order for my brain to be completely distracted, but watching this allowed me to just take a minute and just enjoy the video.
This is really, really bad lol
Yeah, it made me think that I've been doing that recently. As soon as something I'm watching bores me or makes me wait a little, I start playing or looking at something on my phone. I'll stop doing it because I don't think it's a good sign.
Oh I'm so glad someone else does this, I literally struggle so hard with subtitled videos because I can't just focus on the one screen
I count that as a win. Pretty awesome of you to give it recognition! Plus it puts you in a good mood.
@@QuantumTelephone you just blow in from stupid town?
the adhd 'wellness' app reminds me of when a psychologist said that my adhd will be fixed by making to-do lists and schedules and then charged the same amount !
therapists really dont realize how actually really hard creating a schedule is ☠️☠️
Dude my first therapist I ever had said something similar and it’s so stupid lol. Luckily I have a better psychologist now and she actually helps me make a schedule and shows me how and offers practical advice. It sucks there’s so many shitty psychologists mixed with the actually capable ones
Nooooo
and journaling my emotions i don’t even know myself
My psychiatrist told me he wouldn’t change my medication back to the kind I was originally prescribed and had worked for years until I started exercising. He forgot that I needed the meds to be able to plan into my day when I would exercise and also make sure I didn’t get sucked into a hole of figuring out the best possible running shoes to wear and then never exercise
Drew, Coming from a 24 year old who followed you on Vine way back in the olden days of the 2010's, I am so proud to see how far your production has come, the passion you've continued to put into your content, and your ability to continue to distract us from the garbage fire the world has become. Thank you man, cheers on 1 Million views in 24 hours. Can't wait to watch you hit 10 Mil subs.
so, i'm not on the ADHD side like many of the comments around here (and they're bringing a new interesting perspective regarding everything to me), depression and medication messed up my cognitive abd memory hability a bit (first factor). so my therapist asked me to do a bunch of different stuff in my routine to "rewire my brain" (thats not how she talks, but to simplify). also it helps with intruse thoughts. many are very well known (all of them are from cognitive-behavioral therapy i believe but don't quote me on it) like: not complaining about anything for a week (hardest thing i've ever done in my life), brushing my teeth and eating with my non-dominant hand, taking a shower with my eyes closed, walking around the house (when you need to go from one room to another) with my eyes closed and stuff like this. to shut off or at least tone it down the "automatic" mode we do most things. it is much harder to listen to a podcast and going to the bathroom or your eyes closed at the same time. you might end up on the floor. so you force yourself to do one thing at a time. it has mixed results with people obviously, but i just wanted to share my experience as it might help someone