How can you be more intentional in your use of social media? Anxious people often default to scrolling, scrolling, scrolling endlessly every day. Sometimes that's a distraction technique. Sometimes it's part of a compulsive need to keep searching for those magic solutions that you think you might find in the next scroll session that'll fix everything for you. And while you might have the best of intentions in trying to use social media in a positive way, that can often backfire. You can write up overwhelmed, paralyzed by too much information, or really confused by conflicting messages from all kinds of different helpers and gurus. So try to be more intentional with your use of social media. Ask yourself a few questions before you scroll. What am I looking for today? How long am I going to give myself to look for that? Is this something I've been looking for for weeks or months? And if I haven't found it, why do I think I'm going to find it today? And finally, what else can I do today besides scrolling that will move me toward recovery in the real world instead of virtually? Asking yourself these questions can help you be more intentional with your use of social media, and that can only be a good thing.