My spouse and I both doom-scroll news and social media and we keep pulling each other into conversations about whatever horrible thing we just read and we're both more anxious and less able to focus on our actual lives together.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are using each other to process information overload in ways that amplify rather than resolve their underlying anxiety.
“Where Are You with Attention as scarce resource?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.