I didn't really stop, in the sense that almost everyday I'll still visit a bunch of websites, possibly more than once, but I got rid of the obsessiveness: I don

I didn't really stop, in the sense that almost everyday I'll still visit a bunch of websites, possibly more than once, but I got rid of the obsessiveness: I don't check the same sites again and again every 30 minutes (or worse). I also won't turn on my pc just for it. I don't really know how I did it. Combination of recognizing my own behaviour, seeing it is total waste of time (it literally doesn't have any benefit whatsoever for me), figuring out it is actually a relatively simple addiction to break (especially compared to other addictions) and last but not least a saner state of mind in general in comparision with e.g. a couple of years ago. So one day I just told myself 'ok enough with this, from now on I'll just stop hitting F5 repeatedly, I'll visit HN and the others only a couple of times a day and never to escape hard to fix problems at work'. Am I still addicted? Possibly. Yes here I am posting on HN. But it's not an obsession anymore. Also there are never any signs of withdrawal when I don't visit the sites for days. Actually what typically happens is after some days without checking everything I come back, check everything, and am left with a 'yup, didn't miss a thing, same shit as usual' feeling.