Hooked, you feel compelled to read all of them, without realising that you are slowly sinking into an emotional quicksand. Now a bundle of anxiety, you are committing what modern experts call “doomscrolling”.
Our digital lives are so beholden to our smartphones that we have succumbed to ‘doomscrolling’ — the tendency to obsess over bad news. Here are ways to snap out of it, with the help of some gadgets
It usually starts with a disheartening tweet. Fixated on the screen in your hand, you look up at another post, and then another. Feeling angry and hopeless, you stay up thumbing through grainy phone-captured photos and headlines on social media — maybe about the spike in coronavirus cases or the cratering economy — which enrage you even more.
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