How often do you catch yourself doomscrolling? I didn’t think I even did it, until I until I watched a fantastic video essay by Struthless called “The Hidden Cost of Doomscrolling.” But what exactly is doomscrolling? According to Dictionary.com, it is “the practice of obsessively checking online news for updates, especially on social media feeds, with the expectation that the news will be bad, such that the feeling of dread from this negative expectation fuels a compulsion to continue looking for updates in a self-perpetuating cycle.” Struthless’ video expounds on that, labeling it as an addiction to negativity and exposing its different forms and costs on you.
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