to see if being with my phone makes me stressed. i use my phone a lot, and sometimes i feel like it can make me a bit stressed. i'm trying to keep up with social media, my friends, the news, my eāmails. i can't be the only one who finds this exhausting. i found out that the university of greenwich was doing this experiment into digital detoxes and to see whether putting your phone away when you are on holiday can make you less stressed. to participate in the experiment, you have to wear this tracking device that measures your activity levels, your heart rate, even how much you're sweating, to see how stressed you are. i had to wear it for a full day a week before i went on holiday to see what my stress levels were like on a normal day. i arrived at a cabin in the woods in a place near a town called pulborough. it was really remote and i remember pulling my suitcase up this gravelly path in the mud, thinking, what am i going to do for a few days without my phone, without technology, just in this countryside cabin? right. goodbye, babies. there are also a few things