The Brick differs from traditional screentime apps by providing a physical barrier between you and your phone. Jeffrey Hazelwood/Anna Gragert/CNET; Brick/GettyImages This $60 Magnet Curbed My Doomscrolling How to cement the Brick into your life My experience, brick by brick Is the Brick worth $60? My final thoughts As a wellness writer, I've run into a content conundrum: My job requires me to be online to stay up to date on current events and trends, but I also want to spend less time on my phone to  protect my mental health . Despite doing this job for 12 years, I still haven't found a viable solution. Perhaps the  over 1 billion people  who spent at least three hours daily scrolling social media in 2020 haven't either, especially considering that the pandemic years supercharged our scrolling and created poor digital hygiene habits that many of us haven't recovered from.…