Doomscrolling is not a particularly new concept. It has, however, become particularly acute over the last two years, so much so that it was named amongst the words of the year by the Oxford English Dictionary in 2020:
The action of compulsively scrolling through social media or news feeds which relate bad news.
While some people may have only started doi…
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