What doomscrolling does to your mental health
How much time do you spend on your cell phone?
According to a new survey by reviews.org, you’re likely on your phone for hours a day.
The survey finds Gen Xers spend almost 5 hours a day, while boomers spend more than 3 hours of their day on their phones.
This can have implications for our brains, our health and our relationships.
Scripps News speaks with clinical psychologist Dr. Shahrzad Jalali about the potential dangers of doomscrolling.
“When you’re exposed to a constant stream of alarming content, whether it’s war, distress of political chaos, our nervous system does not just observe it, it experiences it,” Jalali says. “So it cannot differentiate between reading the news or actually going to the phenomenon itself. And if our nervous system never gets a chance to calm down from this state, it can lead to emotional numbness, sleep issues, burnout and climate fatigue.”
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2 Comments
Weak minds just doomscroll….learn when you have had enough of the same information and divert your interests to battle algorythms …to avoid the rabbt hole
What does the mainstream media with your mental health since TV was invented?