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Logging Off to Tune In: Digital Burnout in the Always-Online Generation

  Introduction: Wait, Did I Just Scroll for 3 Hours? Raise your hand if you've ever planned to check Instagram for just five minutes and suddenly it's dark outside, your coffee's cold, and you've liked a photo from 2017 (awkward). Yeah, us too. Welcome to the age of digital burnout — a not-so-cute cocktail of screen fatigue, mental overload, and the creeping sense that your brain's been replaced with a TikTok algorithm. Digital burnout is real. It doesn't care if you're crushing your coursework, side-hustling, or binge-watching a docuseries "for research." It's what happens when our online lives eat up all the bandwidth in our brains, leaving us drained, anxious, and low-key miserable. But why is this happening now, and more importantly, what can we do about it? The Screen Scene: How Did We Get Here? Remember when phones were mostly for calling people? (Okay, barely.) Fast forward to today, and our lives are practically sponsored by screens. ...
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