Doomscrolling: Why You Can't Stop

You open your feed for a minute and come back to yourself an hour later — head heavy, with the feeling that the world is falling apart. Doomscrolling is the marriage of gloom and scrolling: the habit of endlessly reading alarming news and heavy content, even when it no longer helps and only drains you. It's not about curiosity or weak willpower: behind that scrolling is a perfectly understandable attempt to cope with anxiety. The problem is that it doesn't work.

What Doomscrolling Is and How It Works

### What Doomscrolling Is