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Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | WIRED: Doomscrolling Is Slowly Eroding Your Mental Health Checking your phone for an extra two hours every night won’t stop the apocalypse—but it could stop you from being psychologically prepared for it. IT’S 11:37 PM and the pattern shows no signs of shifting. At 1:12 am, it’s more of the same. Thumb down, thumb up. Twitter, Instagram, and—if you’re feeling particularly wrought/masochistic—Facebook. Ever since the Covid-19 pandemic left a great many people locked down in their homes in early March, the evening ritual has been codifying: Each night ends the way the day began, with an endless scroll through social media in a desperate search for clarity. To those who have become purveyors of the perverse exercise, like The New York Times’ Kevin Roose, this habit has become known as doomsurfing, or “falling into deep, morbid rabbit holes filled with coronavirus content, agitating myself to the point of physical discomfort, erasing any hope of a good night’s sleep.” For those who prefer their despair be portable, the term is doomscrolling, and as protests over racial injustice and police brutality following the death of George Floyd have joined the Covid-19 crisis in the news cycle, it’s only gotten more intense. The constant stream of news and social media never ends. Of course, a late-night scroll is nothing new—it’s the kind of thing therapists often hear about when couples say one or the other isn’t providing enough attention. But it used to be that Sunday nights in bed were spent digging through Twitter for Game of Thrones hot takes, or armchair quarterbacking the day’s game. Now, the only thing to binge-watch is the world's collapse into crisis. Coronavirus deaths (473,000 worldwide and counting), unemployment rates (around 13 percent in the US), protesters in the street on any given day marching for racial justice (countless thousands)—the faucet of data runs nonstop. There are unlimited seasons, and the promise of some answer, or perhaps even some good news, always feels one click away. [ link to www.wired.com (secure)] HAHAHA sounds like they've never been on GLP before Last Edited by Sundecoder on 01/12/2021 04:22 AMBelieve Nothing - Question Everything |
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User ID: 19939638 Germany 01/12/2021 04:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: WIRED: Doomscrolling Is Slowly Eroding Your Mental Health "Fiery the Angels rose, & as they rose deep thunder roll'd Around their shores: indignant burning with the fires of Orc" - William Blake, America a Prophecy (...also misquoted in Blade Runner by Roy Batty)
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User ID: 79461912 United States 01/12/2021 04:30 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: WIRED: Doomscrolling Is Slowly Eroding Your Mental Health lol A epiphany I had watering my lawn one day.
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 79834528 United States 01/12/2021 04:40 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: WIRED: Doomscrolling Is Slowly Eroding Your Mental Health If They/it weren't waking me up, I would gladly be sleeping instead. |
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User ID: 79616553 United States 01/12/2021 04:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: WIRED: Doomscrolling Is Slowly Eroding Your Mental Health if only they realized. ~Hic Manebimus Optime~ |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 78051061 Australia 01/12/2021 04:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: WIRED: Doomscrolling Is Slowly Eroding Your Mental Health HAHAHA sounds like they've never been on GLP before Quoting: Sundecoder /AND/ --this-- is *ON* GLP PLUS SIDE it also invalidates the 'acceleration' theory unless you're supposed to 'do something' after you've been beat down and stalked and left behind |