Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.
Are you familiar with the term “doomscrolling”? Here’s how The Times defines it:
This experience of sinking into emotional quicksand while bingeing on doom-and-gloom news is so common that there’s now internet lingo for it: “doomscrolling.” Exacerbating this behavior, shelter-in-place orders leave us with little to do other than to look at our screens; by some measures, our screen time has jumped at least 50 percent.
Do you doomscroll? If so, how does it affect you? What has worked for you to break the habit?
Tell us in the comments, then read the related article for more suggestions.
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