Oh, no! Am I a “Doomscroller?” Have I succumbed to this affliction? A pandemic within a pandemic? I fear I have. All the signs point to my transformation into one of these poor, wretched, ravenous beasts.
Did you even know this was a thing? Doomscrollers? That people could become one?
I didn’t either. Not until the other day when … well … I was doomscrolling on my phone, looking for the next breaking news article about how mankind was about to end. That’s when I came across this story from the Web site Wired: “Doomscrolling is slowly eroding your mental health.”
Oh, NO!
So, I doomscrolled through it and realized: Yep, that’s me. I’m a Doomscroller, all right.
The subheadline on the story read: “Checking your phone for an extra two hours every night won’t stop the apocalypse — but it could stop you from being psychologically prepared for it.”
Yikes. Punching a guy in his psychological gut. Not to mention I had already noticed funny neck pains. I thought at first they were headaches, but when I realized my neck was permanently pitched forward at a 90-degree angle, it got me wondering if the chronic reading of news sites on my phone was the culprit. Oh, and I think several vertebrae had popped out, too.