A closer look
Congratulations on starting your day with a piping hot cup of existential dread. Continuously scrolling through negative news triggers a prolonged fight-or-flight response, aggressively flooding your system with cortisol. This doomscrolling effectively short-circuits your brain’s ability to process stress normally, guaranteeing you will spend the next twelve hours feeling deeply irritable and chemically depleted. You are basically paying attention to current events just to psychologically punish yourself.
