Doomscrolling

Doomscrolling: What it is, how the Russia-Ukraine war has seen it return with a vengeance

The constantly changing nature of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine has created a sort of information overload for anyone trying to understand and stay updated with the armed conflict.

Doomscrolling COVID news takes an emotional toll; here's how to make your social media a happier place

Seek out content that makes you happy to balance out your newsfeed. This may be images of cute kittens, beautiful landscapes, drool-worthy food videos or something else

How zombie apocalypse films served as antidote to despair caused by second wave of COVID-19 pandemic

Zombie films have been a favourite for me, but it was only during the disastrous second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic did I turn to them for solace.

2020, a year in mental health: Grief, anxiety, doomscrolling — there's another pandemic alongside COVID-19

There is no blueprint of how to be in a pandemic and perhaps what we need is the permission to just survive it and cultivate a curiosity for what comes up inside us — as we make our way through the virus.

Oxford Languages' 2020 Word of the Year: An unprecedented choice that highlights linguistic effect of COVID-19 on English

The 2020 report does highlight some zippy new coinages, like 'Blursday' (which captures the way the week blends together), 'covidiots' (you know who you are) and 'doomscrolling' (who, me?). But mostly, it underlines how the pandemic has utterly dominated public conversation, and given us a new collective vocabulary almost overnight.

Doomscrolling during COVID-19 can leave you anxious; try these methods cut usage of phone, tablet

Doomscrolling is the habit of scrolling non-stop to consume information on dangers around you, such as, currently, the COVID-19 pandemic