My life became immeasurably better when I stopped keeping my phone by my bed

When I couldn't sleep, I would turn to my mobile for a portal into another world. But there were definite downsides to scanning Instagram in the early hours

When I was a kid, I thought that monsters came out of the dark. Turns out, they actually come out of the light. Like you, I run my life on the supercomputer in my pocket. At night I would place it under the pillow and struggle to put it out of mind, its bright screen a portal to other worlds.

Sure, most of Twitter is bile, but social media suits my exhibitionist spirit; I want to be front and centre of whatever conversations are happening. As a journalist, I am meant to be. When I said I wanted to get my phone out of my bedroom, a colleague half-jokingly asked : "What if something happens?"