This might be why you feel worse after your phone


Doomscrolling and Anxiety: Why Your Phone Keeps Your Body Stressed (And How to Stop) If you’ve ever picked up your phone “for a second” and looked up 45 minutes later feeling more tense, more irritable, and somehow also more numb…welcome. You’re not the only one. Doomscrolling is one of those habits people love to shame themselves for. “I’m addicted.” “I have no discipline.” “What is wrong with me?” But most of the time, doomscrolling is not a character flaw. It’s a nervous system pattern....