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4 Signs Brain Rot Is Destroying Your Mental Health



4 Signs Brain Rot Is Destroying Your Mental Health

Have you been feeling mentally foggy, unmotivated, or weirdly disconnected from the world lately? Like your days blur together, your focus is shot, and all you seem to do is scroll, scroll, scroll—only to feel even more drained afterward?

You’re not imagining it. And no, you’re not just being lazy.
What many people are now calling “brain rot” is a very real experience tied to digital burnout, overstimulation, and emotional exhaustion. It’s that slow mental decline that creeps in when we spend too much time consuming without processing, isolating without realizing, and numbing out without intention.

Credits:
Writer: Dylan Swanepoel
Script Editor & Manager: Kelly Soong
Voice Over: Amanda Silvera – www.youtube.com/AmandaSillvera
Animator: Ccinee Macabidang
YouTube Manager: Cindy Cheong

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  5. @SelinaNumber1AlastorSimp on

    Can you make a video about signs of Brain fog if you haven't already? My doctor says that i have it, but i don't exactly understand what she was explaining. If you can do it, then that would be very good, thank you❤❤❤❤❤

  13. @erviatangerine5108 on

    I'm Ukrainian. Last 3 years taught me that news are also brainrot. I now practice an informational silence for 12 hours when I feel overwhelmed. I used to live in Telegram and Twitter before, that crap is not healthy, it left me emotionally exhausted despite me being critical of any news I saw.

  15. @WhyYouWahYoo on

    I deleted my Facebook account after a very bad experience in February 2020. FEBRUARY. One month before a certain world altering event. To this day I think it was some sort of divine intervention.

  16. @taradyal4153 on

    I honestly just use social media or roblox because I 1.Just really bored
    2.Im literally so lonely irl I have to use roblox to actually talk to people[And yes I know toxic people exist on roblox I've run into many.]
    3.Home schooled and always inside the house
    4.Parents rarely let me outside,Especially my dad if I walk around awkwardly outside..
    5.A break from reality and not to hear my parents fighting to often.
    6.I have absolutely nothing to do,My dad kicks me out of the room all the time so I can't have even a bit of family time, I don't have irl friends, I only have at least a bit of actually fun time with my mom,In which she works a lot.
    Sorry if its kind of a yap session, Or I wanna seem like 'oh I have worse trauma then anyone here!' I know I probably don't, Everyone has been through better or worse.

  20. @sandiletwala3001 on

    Everytime I would wake up I used to look at my phone and social but not anymore because that low key was ruining my self esteem so since I stopped doing I feel like I'm slowly improving my self esteem

  25. @pal-pn8st on

    lately I have been affected by online media a LOT,whenever I wake up and get to college everything seems fine but after I come home I resort to TikTok mostly to find entertainment but ending up getting more anxious,stressed,uncofident because of many people that are "ahead of me"
    I really want to take a step back at least from TikTok and see how it goes as I feel mentally drained and feeling inhumane

  28. @HeytorTheNothing on

    This video is really good for some community that needs help. Idk if I can share that but I was like feeling so anxious when I got manipulated by a social media app this year. I've got false accusation that I didn't realized. Now some people of a good friendly community that I've stayed for a year started to treat me different cuz a mistake that I didn't know better. After that I started to feel way too anxious, depressive and lost. Ik all this situation is the past but still on my mind stuck. This experience that I got makes me feel brainwashed by false accusation and also opinions. I believe that many people have experienced this before. Idk how can I forget all that social media with some disturbed people that I've stayed, but I'm trying to make real friends, practice self-love more, listening to my family and therapists more, and trying to do new hobbies. Trying to do my best to take break from social media. Thanks for this video and also others that I've watched before. I really needed that. This world needs not just you. This world also needs a change for themselves, people. Cuz the Quarentine already have ended. I'll appreciate your reply too. What the world needs is appreciate the life more. 🤍

  35. @rdtyphon6684 on

    I solved this equation here 1:32, or maybe I should say i couldn't solve it as I think it doesn't have any solutions
    If we reqwrite this equation, (I'll skip some steps but nothing too complex)
    We get:-
    2^x (2^2x + 1) = 2(64+1)
    If we solve the factors inside the parentheses, we have x=3, if we solve outside we have x=1, what am I doinf wrong.

  40. @powerwolf415 on

    I deleted every social media app and will never come back to it, the changes are incredible, it literally felt like I cut a huge part of my depression and anxiety away.
    I would recommend everyone to get away from such apps, it literally helps you in every way

  41. @retrogamer7543 on

    It’s gotten to a point where even P2G made a video on it🥴

    This video exactly points out who I deleted my account two weeks ago

    Endless comparison and I felt worst with the emotional baggage I had attached to my Instagram account. I was friends with so many people who I didn’t even talk to…or just didn’t align with me…so many blocked accounts

    And so many “mental health advice” reels, that really spreads narrow mindsets and passive toxic ideations..I had to get rid of it and I’m doing with a lot of my other social media, it’s lonely definitely but it feels better

  44. @noelynlopos9413 on

    thank you for this. never knew i got sucked into a rabbit hole for spending a lot of time reading and watching about the the political and environmental state of the world. it's really good to take a break sometimes

  46. @WombatinaStark on

    Aside from YouTube I used to have Facebook (nothing else), but the constant negativity was overwhelming. I'm not active there for 5 months now and it really makes a huge difference.

  49. @LukasWeeke on

    I'm glad, that I never got into stuff like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram or something in that direction, but I might exaggerate my consumption of music and informative content (like this).

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