DIP: 18.02.S08/20251003 
DOI: 10.25215/2455/1003S08 
Abstract
In this hyper-connected epoch and contemporary digital era, adolescents traverse a digital labyrinth teeming with stimulation, validation, and invisible pressures. While technology enables learning, expression, and connection, its unbridled use often results in emotional turbulence, cognitive dulling, and psychological fatigue. This article illuminates the subtle encroachments of digital overindulgence in teenagers’ lives and detoxification — not as ascetic abstinence, but as a purposeful recalibration of the adolescent psyche. By fostering digital discernment, embedding restorative practices, and nurturing safe relational ecosystems, adolescents can transcend passive scrolling and rediscover self-worth, silence, and authentic joy. Through introspective awareness, structured screen breaks, and supportive adult guidance, young individuals can rediscover serenity, sleep, and self-worth. This paper proposes a nurturing and non-judgmental framework for families, educators and counselors to help adolescents recalibrate their relationship with technology and develop a holistic framework to help youth navigate the digital tide with grace and mindfulness.
The author(s) appreciates all those who participated in the study and helped to facilitate the research process. 
The author(s) declared no conflict of interest. 
ISSN 2455-670X