With the escalation in Gaza and West Bank on top of the incident I’m going to limit how much I spend on telegram, lemmy, etc. because I can get massively hyperfocussed on this shit. Feels a lot like when the Ukraine Russia war heated up and I was stuck to my phone 8 hours a day.
I’m lucky enough to have started my meds recently which are absolutely eviscerating my anxiety, but others aren’t so lucky.
Maybe delete a couple of apps and limit your exposure for a couple of days so even if you DO doomscroll it’s less paralysing.
The new world struggles to be born ❤️
Doomscrolling is a lot like gambling where you keep going, thinking you’re going to finally hit something that makes you feel good (or smart or important). It’s important to break out of that cycle, because it is addicting.