Doom Scrolling

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 It's as scary as it sounds.

Hello everyone and welcome back!

Have you ever thought to yourself, "Just 5 minutes of Instagram and I'll get back to studying at 3:000pm" and then suddenly realise it's been 2 hours?

Welcome to ✨Doom Scrolling✨

The act of mindlessly scrolling through Social Media, normally used in the context of bad news.

This word found its origin on Twitter and was mainly used during the Covid-19 pandemic.
People would endlessly scroll through media, being exposed to negative posts thereby affecting their own mental peace.

It mainly stems from loneliness, isolation and FOMO.
There is a constant urge to be updated with everything that's going on and not be able to snap out of the void. 

This, of course, can greatly affect your mental and well as physical health.

Scientifically speaking, doom-scrolling can increase stress hormones such as adrenaline and cortisol in your body. Your body stays in a constant state of alertness or panic making it difficult for you to focus and may even cause you to kiss goodbye to a peaceful sleep.

Your thoughts are clouded by bad ones arising from the constant exposure to such news and it may even change your whole outlook towards life. This is why doom scrolling can also lead to many mental illnesses. 

Because our generation suffers from phone addiction, that makes it even harder to combat it.
Here's my post on Phone addiction that contains a few tips to control doom scrolling as well: Read!

That was it for today's post! Hope you all enjoyed reading it :)
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Signing off,

Kuhu :)

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