DOOMSCROLLING, according to Merriam-Webster, is “the tendency to continue to surf or scroll through bad news, even
though that news is saddening, disheartening, or depressing”.
Another definition given by the endocrine website author [2],
defines Doomscrolling as obsessively scanning social media and websites for bad news,
triggers the release of stress hormones that can affect your mental and
physical health.
From the above-mentioned definitions, we can have other different terms
which would be explained in the way; like doomsurfing , doom cycle, and so on.
For many, it’s a habit born of the pandemic – and one that is likely to
stay. for campus students to understand this very quickly, still, it is
not a good thing to encourage you to experience it instead, let's see its
effects and how we can cut it out from our living styles. it is really
weird to be harmed by your mobile phone or your computer!
Then what do we have to do with it now and why?
Never deceive yourself that a harmful habit of doomscrolling will
only affect you physically, it is even detrimental to your mental
health.
These are very quick effects of doomsurfing on your life:
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it over-arches a sense of anxiety and depression in your entire life
in a very vicious cycle.
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catastrophizing your life and a way that you will never expect good
in your daily world. just only focusing on only negative
aspects.
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it leads bare minimum in your work, whether you are a student or a
worker in a certain organization; this habit keeps you in minimal
efficiency.
Some health experts and psychologists
Some health experts and psychologists recommend limiting the use
of social media platforms which are slippery-sloped to the
doomscrolling. All of these pieces of advice given are aiming to reduce
the negative effects of doomscrolling, and popular magazines bring to
light the risks of social media addiction and the effects of being in
the use of doomsurfing. BBC also didn’t leave it uncovered, they clearly
showed its effects.
the storm of negative reporting of doomscrolling has led to some
people ditching their smartphones all in all. even though research showing
the negative effects of doomscrolling is realistic and the recommendations
are comprehensible, few of us appear to be following this well-intentioned
advice. There are a few reasons for this. First, blocking out the news
during the period of predicament may not be such a fine idea. Second, many
of us don’t act in response well to being told what we can and cannot do.
Finally, being asked not to do something can make matters shoddier. It can
push us into a negative border of mind and make us less likely to alter
our behavior. relatively quitting doomscrolling, what if we basically got
better at managing it? It is cooperative to begin by acknowledging that
looking for news during times of disaster is perfectly common. In fact,
this response is hard-wired in us humans. Staying watchful of hazards is
part of our endurance mechanism. Gathering information and being set to
face threats have been key to our endurance for millennia.
We can now ask ourselves what to do to avoid these effects -
and the measures are right here.
REFERENCES
1] the new times' magazines
[2] https://www.endocrineweb.com/
[3] BBC
