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How to Break the Doom-Scrolling Cycle

I've been doom-scrolling for four hours straight and I know it's making me feel worse but I cannot stop checking the news and social media.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The mind has become addicted to anxiety as a form of pseudo-control over uncontrollable events.

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