The current world is very strenuous and over-stimulating. It's easy to lose yourself (your own unique, self-generated thoughts and needs separate from every one else's) in being a spectator to so many people and things that phones and social media has opened us up to. Every new thing elicits reactions, comparisons, cheap dopamine, diversion of focus from more meaningful things, etc. We've never been surrounded with so many sensory and cognitive stimuli.
Unplugging and tending to how you're feeling is so essential. I'm learning that doing that inner house cleaning needs to be step one before doing anything heavily action oriented.
At some point I want to try a complete social media detox as an experiment to see just how profound the effects are on mental health. But I think just scheduling your social media exposure to a specific window of time in the day and having all notifications off the rest of the day would do wonders.
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