Psychology
Why you keep doomscrolling after it stops feeling good
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You can spend four continuous hours rapidly flicking through a terrible timeline, feeling completely numb, yet finding it physically impossible to stop. Incentive salience creates a vicious mental trap where your brain desperately 'wants' to perform an action despite literally no longer 'liking' a single second of the actual grim experience.
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