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When constant news creates existential dread

My news app gives me breaking news alerts every hour and I feel like the world is ending but I cannot stop reading.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Information overload triggers survival responses that keep the nervous system in chronic activation.

Ideas that help explain it
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