Doomscrolling

I was doomscrolling for hours last night.

Mariska decided to take a break from social media in order to focus on her mental health and break her addiction to doomscrolling.

Step 1 is to acknowledge the burden that doomscrolling creates for our health, Dr. Gazzaley said. “You have to realize you don’t want to live your life in a hamster wheel of complete news consumption,” he said.

I assured them that while doomscrolling was a difficult online pitfall, it wasn't one they needed to fall in to^([sic]).

It would be easy enough to say just stop doing it, but with everything happening in the world right now, it’s impossible to completely avoid doomscrolling.

But this is 2021 and after a year and a half of COVID-19, of racial and socioeconomic unrest, viewers may be tuning in for a respite from doomscrolling daily news.

Now doomscrolling is back in ways not seen since the beginning of the Covid pandemic.

There is only so much negativity you can absorb before you have to take a deep breath and ask yourself, Do I really need to spend all day doomscrolling? Where is my joy?