Home/Habits & Behaviors/Doom scrolling shame/ThoughtI was scrolling through the news at my desk today, just staring at those photos from the flood zone.doom scrolling shameShare this thoughtCopy linkShare on XDownload imageDoes this resonate with you?Share Your OwnBrowse MoreOthers have felt this tooMy eyes are shot because forty years of staring at layouts and typography will do that to you, but anyway... …emotional numbnessI saw a headline today, another flood somewhere terrible, and I barely registered it beyond a flicker of something — not quite pity, more like a vague sadness — before I started planning lunch. …apathy guiltI saw this news report about the famine today, just scrolling through while drinking my stupidly expensive oat milk latte, and I felt… nothing, really. …apathy guiltI was sitting here at two in the morning, scrolling through the news like a complete ADDICT, and there it was. …doom scrolling shameRelated ThemesEating in secretFinancial hidingHealth denialProcrastination shameSecret indulgences