For a long time, I’ve been acutely aware that doomscrolling was making me anxious. But still, constantly scrolling through all sorts of distressing content on my phone was a habit I couldn’t seem to break.
Whether I was waiting in line at my local coffeeshop or unwinding in bed at night, I found myself unable to resist reaching for my phone, seemingly on autopilot.
There was a positive intention behind this: I wanted to feel informed about the world around me. But the constant influx of updates about ongoing criminal trials, natural disasters, and mass-casualty events definitely left me with a pretty negative outlook.
Studies have repeatedly…
