It's coming up to a year of no social media, almost 3 years without facebook. I kept Instagram around to keep in contact with friends, I was posting and lurking

It's coming up to a year of no social media, almost 3 years without facebook. I kept Instagram around to keep in contact with friends, I was posting and lurking 24/7 on Reddit, and also browsing Twitter all the time, refreshing my feeeeeeed for those new posts. Realized I was heavily depressed, and that the stuff I was reading online was having a really negative impact on my mood everyday. Capitalism Bad, Black Lives Matter (what black people went through made me sad, not the movement becoming prominent), Coronavirus all around the world. Reddit and Twitter were a cancer on my brain. I deleted them, after a twitch content creator killed himself and it sent me into a spiral, I didn't realize that the parasocial relationships were that strong. Like the OP, I went through a pretty severe withdrawal period, it actually got worse before it got better, and I had to go speak to a therapist, because I couldn't even get up to go to work. I'd lost my lifestyle, and these senses of "community" that I had. I can happily say I'm better now, but I'm also thinking of discarding my smartphone. Buy a dumb phone, carry it around with me, while leaving the iPhone at home on wifi for entertainment purposes (Chromecast controller, or watching on phone). I've started watching Twitch and reading reddit more regularly the past couple of months and it's starting to worry me again, might need to do another cleanse somehow, and I can't exactly delete accounts that don't exist, so I need to delete the device that I'm accessing it on.