Doomscrolling: Why we do it, and how we can stop

You’re fully vaccinated—what can you do now?
15 April 2021
WHO: Europe has surpassed 1 million COVID-19 deaths
15 April 2021

Doomscrolling: Why we do it, and how we can stop

Dictionary.com recently added hundreds of new words to its catalog, many of them capturing the zeitgeist of 2020, the year COVID-19 overtook the United States. One of those new words is “doomscrolling”: the act of consuming large quantities of negative online news in a sitting.

Comments are closed.