It's not really possible to use Twitter without at least a little bit of doomscrolling, and that activity took a toll on me emotionally. Doomscrolling or dooms

It's not really possible to use Twitter without at least a little bit of doomscrolling, and that activity took a toll on me emotionally. Doomscrolling or doomsurfing is the act of spending an excessive amount of time reading large quantities of negative news online. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomscrolling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomscrolling I don't think I do this -- at least not anymore. Tweets are short. If you don't want to click into the horrifying article linked or whatever, you don't have to. You may not be able to use the platform formerly known as Twitter without scrolling through a fair number of Tweets with negative framing, but it's a bit like seeing a bunch of negative titles and you can just go "Well, not my cup of tea. Not going down that rabbit hole." It's maybe something I did when I didn't feel well and couldn't focus or whatever. It's low-hanging fruit when I have no energy nor attention span. But even with that, I've gotten better over time at recognizing when I feel awful and I'm inclined to do stupid stuff online and instead of wallowing in the mire, I try to play games that are "my speed" for such times, "productively piddle," or watch music videos. I try really hard to not just wallow in my bad mood and let it grow into something more in my mind than "Well, Doreen is sick and tired today and everything sounds bad because of it."