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End your Doomscrolling
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End your Doomscrolling

How to end your habit of doomscrolling
Created byMeganni Franklyn
Last updated 9/2024
English
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What you'll learn

  • What is Doomscrolling
  • How it effects your brain
  • Why it is not good for your mental wellbeing
  • Tips on how to end your doom scrolling

Course content

1 section • 11 lectures • 44m total length

  • Introduction1:42

    Explore doomscrolling and its link to constant social media use on smartphones, and learn tips to reduce it by replacing it with empowering habits for your mental health.

  • What is doom scrolling4:20

    Identify doomscrolling as obsessively seeking and absorbing bad news, fueling anxiety and depression. Learn how the brain's survival instincts drive constant negative scrolling and how to reclaim time.

  • Negative impacts on our mental and physical health8:04

    Doomscrolling activates the amygdala and triggers fight-or-flight, fueling anxiety, irrational fears, and depression. It wastes time, harms mental and physical health, and creates a vicious cycle of seeking negative news.

  • Technology and scrolling2:05

    Break doomscrolling by recognizing that technology fuels negative content through search engines and social media algorithms, and change what you search and read to regain control.

  • Research studies show impact2:16

    Explore how constant exposure to bad news increases anxiety and stress. A study comparing positive, mixed, and negative headlines shows doomscrolling heightens fear and worry, tied to intolerance of uncertainty.

  • Asking yourself questions about your habit3:41

    Ask key questions about your doomscrolling habit to break free: assess usefulness, name emotions, and verify news before sharing. Then replace scrolling with breaks and joyful activities.

  • Tips for stopping doom scrolling4:41

    Break free from doomscrolling by establishing a new daily routine, reducing bad news sources, and replacing scrolling with empowering activities that boost mood, reduce stress, and regain control.

  • How meditation can help1:22

    Cultivate conscious control over your emotional state and attention through meditation, recognize the first and second darts, reduce doomscrolling and mental rumination, and practice calmer responses.

  • Meditation to help to stop scrolling4:43

    Practice a mindfulness meditation to stop doomscrolling by observing anxieties with the breath in the present moment, releasing judgments, and choosing a single next action to reset.

  • Meditation to calm your mind10:38

    Practice a guided meditation that uses deep breathing, mountain visualization, and symbolic birds to release stress, cultivate calm, confidence, and a sense of safety for daily life.

  • End of course0:29

    End your doomscrolling and finish the course by summarizing the core ideas and closing reflections.

Requirements

  • Beginner

Description

Introduction


Do you have a doomscrolling habit? Are you constantly checking your social media accounts for the latest bad news and doom and gloom? Doomscrolling is a relatively new term used to describe a negative habit that has intensified with the introduction of smartphones and social media.

People are spending a lot of time each day reading about the latest spread of Covid-19, the state of the economy in their country, natural disasters, global warming, the threat of wars, murders and other crimes and more.

There are so many things that can provide you with a negative experience these days. Every day in the news there are reports of the latest classroom shootings in the United States and the seemingly uncontrollable spread of Covid-19 and its variants. If you want to put yourself in a negative state of mind then there is plenty of information available for you to do this.

The reporting of bad news is not a not thing of course. Before the Internet and social media there was bad news being reported on the television news and in newspapers (this is still going on today). Constantly reading and listening to these bad news reports is not good for your mental health. But it is a habit that you can break.

In this course  we will take a deep dive into doomscrolling (sometimes called “doomsurfing”) and how it can negatively impact your state of mind. Then we will reveal what you can do to overcome this negative habit and replace it with empowering habits. These empowering habits will transform your life for the better. OK, let’s get on with it shall we? In the next section we will reveal what doomscrolling really is.


Who this course is for:

  • Beginner

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