This article really only touches the surface of the issue and, despite hinting at deeper problems, refuses to acknowledge them. A potentially endless stream of

This article really only touches the surface of the issue and, despite hinting at deeper problems, refuses to acknowledge them. A potentially endless stream of seamlessly accessible information (aka continuous scrolling down) is bad, not because of the content read, but because it manages to manipulate the user into going on and on and on and on. The article touches on that tangentially ... > Aldao, the director of Together CBT, a clinic that specializes in cognitive behavioral therapy, has worked with her patients to cut back on doomscrolling. ... but fails to point out that the conclusion is not to control which content is being taken in, but to ban doomscrolling altogether, because it's some form of automaticity making you more perceptible to being psychologically manipulated. That's why it's so successful and that's why it's so bad. That's why patients are being treated with CBT, because apparently that's what it takes to get her to stop doing it instead of her simply stopping doing it. She simply can't.