Doomscrolling: The Anxiety Metronome

David Sahyoun, 18:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)

Psychoanalysis Doomscrolling Anxiety Culture Unconscious

Doomscrolling is a neologism that combines the darkness of “doom,” meaning fate, calamity, or collapse, with the act of “scrolling,” the finger’s movement that steadily moves through a page’s content. It has now earned a place in English dictionaries. Merriam-Webster defines to doomscroll as “spending an excessive amount of time ...