Doom-scrolling addiction is real

[TwoWhalesInAPool]

so important it needed its own thread

DOOM-SCROLLING (rep)

Doom-scrolling is the act of spending an excessive amount of time reading or watching large quantities of negative news online.

Studies show that seeing upsetting news leads conspiracy theorists to seek out more information on the topic, creating a self-perpetuating cycle.

Doom-scrolling can be linked to a decline in mental and physical health and is the number one activity and action taken up by conspiracy theorists.

By frequently monitoring events surrounding negative headlines, staying informed may grant the feeling of being better prepared; however, prolonged scrolling also leads to worsened mood and mental health as personal fears are heightened.

Doom-scrolling became widespread among conspiracy theorists, Twitter/YouTube and fake news website users during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The act of Doom-scrolling can be attributed to the natural negativity bias people have when consuming information.

Negativity bias is the idea that negative events have a larger impact on one's mental well-being than good ones.

Doom-scrolling, the compulsion to engross oneself in negative news, may be the result of an evolutionary mechanism where humans are "wired to screen for and anticipate danger".

Increased Doom-scrolling exposes the brain to greater quantities of unfavourable news and may restrict the brain's ability to embrace good news and discount bad news; this can result in negative emotions that make one feel anxious, depressed, and isolated.

Individuals who suffer with cognitive distortion can experience an increase in ruminative thinking and panic attacks due to
Doom-scrolling.

Studies also show a connection between consumption of bad news with higher levels of anxiety, depression, stress, and even symptoms similar to post-traumatic stress disorder.

Clinical psychologist Dr. Carla Marie Manly suggested that for conspiracy theorists Doom-scrolling is addictive, it creates in them a feeling of safety and security during uncertain times.

Experts also say Doom-scrolling can disrupt sleep patterns, lower attentiveness, and cause overeating, drinking and drug taking.

Clinicians found that fear-based media can also weaken a person's ability to process trauma.

During encapsulation, a person "attempts to enclose or seal off representations of the trauma", resulting in denial or disavowal.

Experts describe the phenomenon similar to the act of "shutting out", and can result in breakdown of relationships, anger, fatigue, flat speech, cognitive decline and in many cases hallucinations.

TY@TC

 

[Kev45]

Doom-scrolling is the act of spending an excessive amount of time reading or watching large quantities of negative news online.

A coincidence, but I was reading about this just the other day in an old article on the Guardian site. A fascinating subject because it is also transferable to all other aspects of a persons' life, interpersonal relationships and work life, etc. A vicious cycle that becomes all consuming and constantly searching for new content to reaffirm that the negative content they constantly seek out is the norm. If it isn't the norm, then why can they find it, is the thought process and because they can find it therefore there must be an element of truth behind it.

So they seek more clues to piece together the jigsaw they believe is there. They believe that it will alleviate feelings of helplessness and distress even, about the wider world in general, and in other words an addiction of sorts, it is very interesting.

 

[Brass]

DOOM-SCROLLING (rep)

Individuals who suffer with cognitive distortion can experience an increase in ruminative thinking and panic attacks due to
Doom-scrolling.

Exactly!! Consider your continued belief that the covid test will tell you whether or not you have covid. You've been shown the quote from the CDC.

Remember this:

“Detection of viral RNA may not indicate the presence of infectious virus or that 2019-nCoV is the causative agent for clinical symptoms. The performance of this test has not been established for monitoring treatment of 2019-nCoV infection. This test cannot rule out diseases caused by other bacterial or viral pathogens.” — The Centers For Disease Control and Prevention

Now why don't you show everyone how it is you came to the conclusion that what the CDC really meant was the opposite of what they said. But you're not going to do that because you know you've been lied to, and the only way to keep your illusion alive is to pretend that the test will tell you what you need to know.

So, what's with the pretending? For those who are dying to hear your rationale for believing that your silly ideas somehow overrules that statement from the CDC, what would you like to tell them?

You have to tell them something or it will confirm that you are quite mindless.

 

[Dropship]

Doom-scrolling is the act of spending an excessive amount of time reading or watching large quantities of negative news online..

Thankfully we can turn to the Bible for comfort..
Oh wait!-
"The Lord will lay waste the earth and devastate it. It is defiled by its people; they have disobeyed the laws, violated the statutes and broken the everlasting covenant..
Therefore a curse consumes the earth, its people must bear their guilt. The city is left in ruins, its gate is battered to pieces.
The floodgates of the heavens are opened, the foundations of the earth shake. The earth is broken up, the earth is split asunder, the earth is thoroughly shaken. The earth reels like a drunkard, it sways like a hut in the wind, so heavy upon it is the guilt of its rebellion" (Isaiah ch 24)

 

[TwoWhalesInAPool]

DOOM-SCROLLING TAKES IT TOLL​

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Man permanently angry about things that haven't happened​

An elderly man spends a large amount of time on the internet and fuming about things he does not agree with

which have not actually happened.

Ray Cyst, 58 is furious about issues ranging from free Porsches, Ferraris and iPhones for people on benefits to a ban on

alcohol and meat products, none of which have happened or are likely to.

All this 'true' information is found as he doom-scrolls various far-right websites.

Cyst said: “It’s only a matter of time before dole scroungers force us taxpayers to pay for their iPhones, Porsches and

Ferraris.''

''Then it’ll be free internet, petrol, carwashes and wheels. I’m disgusted by 21st-century Britain.''

''All it takes is some woke do-gooder and suddenly you’re not allowed to buy your granddaughter an ice-cream

because dentists can’t be bothered to do their job properly.''

“When they decide to make the national anthem multicultural, you won’t find me singing the reggae version in a

Jamaican accent. I’d rather go to prison.”

In the last hour alone, Cyst has been venting angrily, on online forums, about vegetarian sausages becoming

compulsory, primary school children being allowed to vote, and couples wanting to have sex being forced to apply for

a permit first.

[editors note: we discovered after this article went to press that Ray is long term unemployed but lies about being in work]

TY@TDM

 

[Kev45]

Ray Cyst, 58

And even more upset today than usual because he now claims, dramatically, that he is "politically homeless". After gloating for months on end in multiple threads on this forum that he voted Boris Johnson and Tory.

Now apparently, with the most right-wing governments of the past 50 years, who are eroding all our rights faster than he can spam "woke", they are not even right wing enough for him. Even though Boris never was hard-right and always was a centre-right liberal, even as far back as London Mayor, and even though Boris has never ever been a true Conservative anyway.

 

[Kev45]

Says sausage who has spammed, relentlessly, 1000’s of YouTube videos from far-right conspiracy theorist white supremacist sites, screeching like a banshee "prove me wrong" and of course demonstrating to us mere mortals "what that current science is"?

Science such as three years ago, "50% who have been vaccinated will die from a cardiac arrest within two years".

How's current science doing on that one, Mr Politically Homeless?

Or how about you more recently spamming, relentlessly, that young sports men and women and young people in general, are dropping dead in their "thousands" and which you claim is due to the vaccine.

How's the current science going in that one?

Edited to say 50%.

 

[Kev45]

I never said “everyone” but you know that Raymond don’t you?

You didn't say anything at all you sausage, you spam posted a link to a disgruntled GP in Canada or even Alaska, I can't recall where, claiming it was science and "not all doctors agree" and who predicted "50% of the vaccinated would die within two years".

How is the "up-to-date science" going on that one, more than three years later?

 

[Kev45]

Far too well.

But you have no "up-to-date science" to support your claim, do you, you sausage?

It doesn't even exist, does it.

 

[Kev45]

Again Raymond, why ask a question when you will ignore science?

Post "up-to-date science" and stop beating about the bush Christopher, trolling, or I simply won't respond.

 

[Kev45]

So, no evidence at all, of any "up-to-date science" to support your spam posted "scientific" claims over the years.

Enjoy your wine, Christopher, and enjoy the conversation, talking to yourself again.

 

[TwoWhalesInAPool]

But you have no "up-to-date science" to support your claim, do you, you sausage?

It doesn't even exist, does it.

It prefers woo. Making the rabbit hole so deep with that one. As we have found, it is impossible to argue or debate science with anyone who has no grasp of scientific basics. May as well argue with the leg of a table. *shrugs*.

and ps: wtf is raymond? Is it a name like 'woke' or 'sheeple'? Or does it believe fvck knows what!?!