I never knew you could treat depression symptoms from your phone, but with this prescription app called Rejoin, it's possible.
It's for adults age 22 and up with major depressive disorder who want to add to their antidepressant medication.
And get this, it's the first and only prescription app authorized by the FDA to treat depression symptoms.
Rejoin does not replace your current medication.
Be sure to use as directed by your healthcare provider, and if your depression symptoms worsen, seek help immediately.
Get started today by talking to your healthcare provider or visiting meetrejoin .com.
That's meetrejoin .com.
Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.
Good morning. This is Laura.
Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Today's tip is to turn down the volume.
By consciously substituting less stimulating activities for more stimulating ones, we can feel less anxious and more calm.
Today's tip, like some others this week, comes from Chris Bailey's new book, How to Calm Your Mind.
In this book, Chris shares strategies for being more productive by reducing anxiety.
When your mind is racing, it is hard to accomplish much.
But when you aren't flitting from thing to thing, you can relax and get more done.
Chris notes that some activities are far more stimulating than others.
Our brains get a dopamine hit from things that are novel or changing quickly or are alarming in some way.
Picture the hyped -up face of a child interacting with two screens at once, a game on a Kindle and streaming a video on an iPad.
We could laugh about that, but honestly, many adults do similar things all the time.
Theoretically watching a Zoom meeting while checking email or scrolling social media while watching a TV show or having podcasts on in the background while you're doing something you are trying to focus on.
Just as with a kid, it can get you in a hypercharged frame of mind.
The antidote is to go on a stimulation fast, as Chris calls it in How to Calm Your Mind.
While stimulation sounds like something of a good thing, too much of it can make you agitated.
You can consciously substitute less stimulating activities for more stimulating activities.
So, instead of checking news online, read a real newspaper.
The news is still there, and you will still be informed, but you won't also see a million ads and see things trying to make you click this way and that.
Instead of checking email constantly through the day, designate a few times when you will deal with it.
Four or five check -ins per day is still quite frequent.
You will see anything within an hour or two, which allows for a rapid response.
But you will lower the volume on how much stimulation you are getting.
If you are looking to interact with people, talk with a friend or two instead of diving into an online chat.
Now, there might be places for both in life, but I would recommend starting with the real -life friends and then giving social media the time left over.
A real conversation with real people is nice, but is inherently less hyped up than one yanking you from place to place online.
Even shopping comes in more stimulating and less stimulating versions.
Chris noted that online window shopping was constantly making him feel more stimulated, so he cut back on that.
Now, he only goes online to shop if he knows exactly what he is buying ahead of time.
I'd add that many people make themselves anxious by trying to speed things up.
There is nothing wrong with being expeditious.
But if you don't have time to listen to a podcast at the speed the podcaster spoke, maybe you don't have time for that podcast.
Yanking it up to 2x speed is just going to make you feel more hyped up.
So turn down the volume on overstimulating things.
At first, you might feel a little bored.
Like, shouldn't I be multitasking?
Shouldn't I get more done?
Reading a newspaper is obviously doing one thing.
Whereas when we are online reading the news, we might also be checking email at the same time and other messages and maybe half working on a project, which all feels better.
But you are probably not doing much of consequence.
Read the paper, then go on to the other things.
Do it all in sequence.
As Chris notes in How to Calm Your Mind, you will feel less anxious and far more calm.
That is worth playing with a little boredom to achieve.
In the meantime, this is Laura.
Thanks for listening.
And here's to making the most of our time.
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I never knew you could treat depression symptoms from your phone, but with this prescription app called Rejoin, it's possible.
It's for adults age 22 and up with major depressive disorder who want to add to their antidepressant medication.
And get this, it's the first and only prescription app authorized by the FDA to treat depression symptoms.
Rejoin does not replace your current medication.
Be sure to use as directed by your health care provider, and if your depression symptoms worsen, seek help immediately.
Get started today by talking to your health care provider or visiting meetrejoin .com.
That's meet, R -E -J -O -Y -N, dot com.
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