Doomscrolling

hello. lately I'm finding myself watching a lot of reality TV or just doomscrolling on my phone once the kids go to sleep. I have a Kindle which I used to use a lot before and would like to go back to it again. I would really appreciate book recommendations. maybe your favorite book or something that you read recently and really enjoyed. thank you

... their day, working, learning, parenting, doomscrolling. In Iran, human chains are...

Ich glaube, bei Dir liegt eine falsche Annahme zugrunde, was "der Durchschnittsnutzer" mit seinem Gerät macht. Doomscrolling dürfte da ganz oben auf der Liste stehen, so traurig das sein mag.

... AFWall running in the background; doomscrolling IG Reels and watching YouTube...

Even doomscrolling is too much effort now. Please may I have my Enjoyment injected intravenously. On subscription, natch.

You kinda need to be doomscrolling on Linkkedin all the time, ...

@K1mii Ich darf nachts nicht raus 🫩 ausserdem ist da mein doomscrolling bis 3 bereits in meiner Routine eingebaut

... να τα σώσουν από το doomscrolling αλλά δεν τους ενδιαφέρει να...

... into their busy schedule of doomscrolling tiktok shakes fist at sky...

... ja mal unter dem Stichwort „Doomscrolling“ recherchieren!

agree ah bro.. i discovered exercise and couldn't live with it .. sometimes ayam wonder how ppl can live without exercise, just doomscrolling their life away. jom.lepak, sykz, and 1 other liked this post

Oh yeah, a bricked phone is one that originally had all the feature like Google, games, social media, and stuff like that, but has been limited to just texting and calling. That’s what my phone is like now, but I’m actually glad it’s like that because it prevents me from ever doomscrolling Youtube or Instagram

... heart and step back from doomscrolling. Bake a Cozy Apple Pancake...

QUOTE(desmond2020 @ Apr 7 2026, 12:33 PM) this one not on the DNB 5G network should be great until umobile oversold till exceed capacity for sure, so much people doomscrolling video service anyway. public are not using public wifi service too.

I do! But i think its sort of beneficial spending time here on giffgaff forums than feeding into the addictive doomscrolling on Instagram reels or Tiktoks.

Pisaro schrieb: Wer zockt denn noch ernsthaft ein Spiel 4-5 Stunden am Stück? Besser als 4-5 Stunden den Abend mit Netflix oder Doomscrolling zu verbringen.

doomscrolling yapan arkadaşların hevesini kırmak gibi olmasın ama, 125.000 dönüm dediğimiz yer giresun'un il yüzölçümünün %1.83'üne denk gelmektedir.

... engagement", I get sucked into doomscrolling... The less I come into...

... of electricity, tablets, and endless doomscrolling; kids come online never seeing...

Some guy from Vietnam hacked my Facebook. Honestly I wish I could have a beer with that guy. I just deleted IG the other night, leaving me with no social media handles. It’s nice to not have the mind infiltrated by doomscrolling and brain rot.

... bir türlü bırakamıyorsun. işte buna doomscrolling deniyor. felaket, kavga, kriz… ne...

... Mainstream Insta&Co. komplett distanziert habe. Doomscrolling war nie meins, und die...

... the subject instead of mindlessly doomscrolling for hours on end sifting...

How it feels to doomscroll at after along day of doomscrolling

gündem takip etmek: (bkz: doomscrolling) sosyal medyada gündem konularına yorum yapmak: (bkz: slacktivism) doğrudan çözemeyeceğimiz sorunlara bu kadar takılmak, birilerine cevap yetiştirmek ve kendi fikrini baskınca anlatmaya çalışmak sadece enerjimizi boşa tüketir. gündem konusu büyük oranda kısır bir döngüdür.

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The reason is very simple: the disgusting, greedy and perverted elites feed off of our life energy. Engaging in mindless doomscrolling deprives you of your life force, puts you in a negative state of mind and consumes you physically, emotionally and spiritually. That's why the powers that be wants you to be chronically online, enraged over everything and anything, consuming corn and addicted to "social media" (Reddit is a social media). Do you think it's a coincidence? Ask any person with some common sense if they feel better or worse after scrolling on Reddit, Instagram or whatever it is. Or better yet, do it yourself. Wake up in the morning and immediately come to this sub and scroll on here for an hour, then report back to us if you felt more energized and happy or the opposite. This is literally what happened to me today. I felt absolutely utter sh*t and couldn't even get out of bed before 2PM. That's how they want you to be. From the looks of it, this year will be a bumpy ride, but we'll be okay if we stand together and pay attention to things that actually matter. Stay sharp, guys, and take care. submitted by /u/vinilzord_learns to r/conspiracy [link] [comments]

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i've tried everything. deleted the apps, came back in 3 days. set screen time limits, ignored them immediately. went cold turkey, lasted a weekend. what finally worked is genuinely embarrassing to admit, i made it slightly annoying to open my phone. that's it. that's the whole thing. i have to physically handwrite a sentence on paper in front of my camera before any of my blocked apps unlock. takes maybe 30 seconds. you can absolutely still get in, it's not a hard block. it's just...annoying enough that my brain can't do it on autopilot anymore. why i think this actually works so i went down a rabbit hole trying to understand why something this simple worked when nothing else did. doomscrolling isn't really a decision. it's a habit loop, some cue triggers it (boredom, stress, sitting on the toilet lol), your hand picks up the phone before your brain even registers what's happening, and by the time you're conscious you're already 20 posts deep. the whole thing fires in under a second. hard blocking kills the reward but doesn't touch the loop. which is why you just get annoyed and find a workaround. your brain still wants the hit, it just needs a different path. friction works differently. there's research (BJ Fogg at stanford) showing that even tiny increases in effort cause significant drops in behavior, not because you lose the motivation but because the unconscious loop can't complete cleanly. the 30 second pause isn't long, but it's long enough for your prefrontal cortex to catch up and go "wait, do i actually want to do this?" the handwriting thing specifically is weird and i didn't expect it to matter. but there's something about the physical act of writing that pulls you into your body and out of autopilot. can't really explain it better than that, it just feels different to pick up a pen than to tap a screen. where i'm at two months in. 7.5 hours a day down to under 2. and honestly the bigger change is that when i do use my phone now it feels intentional rather than like something that happened to me. still not perfect. some days i write the sentence and scroll anyway. but those days i at least made a choice. submitted by /u/No_Macaroon6827 to r/selfimprovement [link] [comments]

If you’re comfortable sharing: What were your biggest triggers? (boredom, anxiety, bedtime, stress, loneliness, etc.) What was the one change that made the biggest difference? What replacements worked best? (reading, walking, hobbies, journaling, calls, etc.) Any “rules” that stuck long-term? (phone location, app limits, time blocks, dumb phone windows, etc.) Biggest surprise lesson you learned? If you have a favorite resource (book/article) that helped you, I’d appreciate it too. In my own personal case, 22M, it was setting myself goals that require the use of my free time. This year I set myself as a goal to watch >=100 movies and to read >=15 books. I didnt even notice it at first, but anytime I had free time I would watch a movie or read for a while. I noticed after a couple of weeks I was scrolling way less. Thanks — I’ll read every reply. submitted by /u/coniwas to r/nosurf [link] [comments]

Does anybody have any ADHD-friendly hobbies to suggest to a girlie who is currently unmedicated and severely ADHD? I would like to stop doomscrolling, but when I look up hobby ideas, they are explained in a way that feels daunting. A hobby with a low-effort starting point would be great! EDIT: Thank you for the suggestions! It really made me smile seeing so many kind people giving lovely ideas without judgement. Makes me feel like I can do something fun/productive too! ❤️ submitted by /u/TinyTangents to r/adhdwomen [link] [comments]

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Everyone talks about quitting smoking or drinking or whatever, but doomscrolling honestly feels way worse to me. It’s so normal now that nobody even questions it. Just endless scrolling through bad news, reels, tweets, notifications every few minutes, comparing your life to random people online, constant FOMO. It’s exhausting but somehow feels impossible to stop. You don’t even realize how much it messes with your focus, mood, relationships, everything. I’ve tried setting limits. I’ve tried uninstalling apps. I’ll stay off for a few days, maybe a week if I’m lucky, and then suddenly I’m back to scrolling like nothing changed. No decision, just autopilot. The worst part is people don’t take it seriously. If you say you’re addicted to doomscrolling, people laugh it off or say “same.” But this actually feels like a real addiction, just quieter and completely normalized. Anyone else feel this way? Do you even try to control it, or have you just accepted it at this point? Would genuinely like to hear how other people deal with this, or if anyone else feels equally stuck. submitted by /u/Either_Equipment8912 to r/selfimprovement [link] [comments]

The affect of the endless scroll available on the internet seems to be destroying my life. I will sit down at a computer or with my phone and easily lose hours of time. Hours lost to basically nothing. Sometimes this is scrolling funny videos, sometimes this is a misguided attempt to remain "informed" which leads me to read every possible opinion on a major issue and then scroll through oodles of hot takes and quick videos and horrific clips of horrific actions. I don't know how to disconnect. I despise the internet and don't know how to leave it behind. This becomes much worse when stress hits. Stress can be personal or stress can be world or political level. Right now is probably the worst I've ever experienced. For context, I live on the border of Minneapolis and a first ring suburb. So the massive disruption to life caused by ICE is sending me down into a spiral. submitted by /u/Dear_Chemical4826 to r/ADHD [link] [comments]

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Today is my 93 day I quit all of this stuff. It sounds extreme, but it didn’t feel like some insane discipline chalenge. For me quitting everything at once was about as hard as quitting one thing, just without letting my brain jump to a new distraction. What changed? The biggest change was how quiet my head got. I can sit with myself without instantly reaching for stimulation, and I’m a lot more present with people. Work feels smoother too: I just sit, focus, finish, and move on instead of fighting urges every ten minutes haha. My confidence didnt suddenly explode like people say, it just built slowly. Trusting myself a tiny bit more each week made a big difference. Now meeting new people feels easier and got a girlfriend through the process (If you are reading this, I love you ❤️). And, for my surprise, the things I quit feel boring now. It could sound weird but it isnt because I’m above them, my brain isn’t starved for constant hits anymore. How I changed it? The mindset that helped the most was keeping it to “just today.” Forever, decades, years, months (even weeks) is too big. Today is the best because it is just some small steps and, if you know the compound effect, well, there you go. I also stopped beating myself up every time I felt cravings or slipped. I am chrsitian, so I used to fight this a lot back then. But I needed to remember that we're forgiven just to be a child of God. If you're non-religious: slipping isn’t a failure, it’s part of being human. You don’t need to "earn" the right to start over. You can just start again. Idk If can mention the apps but near the end of this whole process, I also started using tools to stay focused and consistent about what I actually wanted to work towards (Purposa - chase your dreams) and to keep my phone from dragging me back (Opal). It was like a month ago that I started using these and it was when I mostly needed them. Before all of this I’d spent years trying to quit each habit separately: games since I was a child, caffeine for years and scrolling basically my whole adult life Basically, nothing stuck because every time I dropped one thing, I’d pick up another. Advice I’m not saying everyone should do this, but if you feel stuck in those adicctions, it’s not hopeless. Lower the noise a bit, take it one day at a time, and keep things simple. The real work was just showing up every day and not running away from myself. Keep going and (like Iman Gazhi says) I am rooting for you 🙌 submitted by /u/Mammoth-Car3183 to r/getdisciplined [link] [comments]

Social life is just about dead, I have no friends I see outside of work. I cannot organize anything to save my life. Room's a mess, I don't take care of myself. I am exhausted every single day when I wake up. Simple tasks feel like they take far more effort than they should. And yet, I continue frying my brain, day in and day out. I was like this in my teens and 20s. Here I am approaching my mid thirties, with no change. I was a doomscroller before the damn term was coined. The most messed up thing about it all, is seeing younger generations fall into the same addictive habits that I did. And here I sit, just scrolling away, as my life crumbles around me. This habit has done me absolutely no good and has only caused harm. Therefore, it has to stop. For those younger, stop before it's too late. It's terrifying to see how much time has passed, how much time I've lost, people around me older. And myself, feeling much, much older. Not waiting until 2026 to make this some silly New Year's Resolution. It stops now. It needed to stop long ago. submitted by /u/MusingsAndMind to r/nosurf [link] [comments]

Travelling and saw this kid 4-5y/o seated infront on window seat and still scrolling reels mindlessly. I mean I'm 21 and still get enchanted to get a window side, look out the scenery, mountains, plains, countryside life. just enjoy the view basically. Growing up I always saw kids being happy bout the same but if I look around in current scenario it aches me a little how a lot of toddlers these days are addicted to doomscrolling, of nonsignificance. i think they are truly missing a part of childhood amusement submitted by /u/SerialStresserr to r/indianrailways [link] [comments]

Lately I've been trying really hard to stop using my phone, I realized I had a problem because I used to spend up to 10 hours a day just on tiktok or insta. It was messing with my mental health and my grades pretty badly, so I knew I had to do something. I deleted Tiktok a few months ago and things have gotten a bit better overall. But sometimes I get so bored that I just cave and end up doomscrolling on youtube or Instagram instead, or I'll watch videos on my PC. I have adhd so this is really ruining my life. I just can't imagine a life without screens, how did humans pass the time before? I'm 21 and have had a phone since I was like 9, I suspect I've been addicted ever since. And it's not like I don't have other stuff to do. I paint, play guitar, and I like reading. But there are these little pockets of time throughout the day (like the 2 hours between waking up and heading to work) where it doesn't feel worth it to start something with such little time, I know I'll just have to stop halfway through, so I end up scrolling instead. Truly, I feel like I don't remember how it is to live without a screen available at all times, I don't know how to be bored, stuff like reading feels so underwhelming when I could have all the dopamine I want with just a few minutes of scrolling. And I can't delete Instagram because that's where all my friends are and how I find out about stuff. It feels pretty hopeless sometimes. I keep thinking about how many hours I've wasted and what this might've done to my brain. Anyone have advice? submitted by /u/Junior_Accident_9908 to r/digitalminimalism [link] [comments]

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When I first tried quitting mindless scrolling, I had no idea what to do with myself. I’d reach for my phone without thinking, only to remember I deleted Reddit and YouTube. It felt like losing a limb. So I started making a list of things I could do instead of stuff that didn’t feel like a punishment or some “productive grindset” thing. Just low-effort alternatives that helped break the cycle. Here's what I did Journaling stream-of-consciousness for 10 minutes Dumping thoughts on paper helped me stop overthinking and gave my brain a reset. Playing music in the background and cleaning one tiny area Having some good music to vibe to in the background helped motivate me to clean one area at a time. T Reading something short & interesting (physical or Kindle) Short stories, essays, or even random pages of nonfiction. Low commitment, high payoff. Going Outside I would either walk around the neighborhood, ride my bike or step into my garage and workout to pass time and to get away from my phone Making a dumb little to-do list Even if it’s “drink water” and “fold one sock.” It helps redirect my energy. Cooking the "slow way" Instead of buying instant meals, I would cook everything from scratch. Playing with a fidget toy or sketching Zero skill needed. Just something tactile to do with your hands. Calling or voice-noting a friend Not texting. Actually talking. It feels weird at first but way more rewarding. Watching the sky or street from a window for 5 minutes It sounds dumb, but it's like meditation for screen-fried brains. Doing a single sudoku or Word Search Just one. Not to “improve brain function” but to focus on something with edges. These aren’t life hacks or productivity boosters, they’re just anchors I use to keep from defaulting to the infinite scroll. submitted by /u/Work_for_burritos to r/nosurf [link] [comments]

You might ask: Does my parents approve of this? YES.They saw the process and even my dad wanted a picture of Obama and Manny Pacquiao pasted. They dont care abt what I print, they care about the ink I've spent. submitted by /u/HylianBlader-Ad3392 to r/teenagers [link] [comments]

For a long time, I was waking up and immediately grabbing my phone. TikTok, Reddit, YouTube, whatever was easiest. I wasn’t even enjoying it most of the time. Just stuck in the cycle. Eventually, I got tired of feeling brain-dead by noon. So I made one change: No phone until after noon. It sucked at first. I felt bored, anxious, even kinda lost. But I stuck with it. And instead of just doing nothing, I filled that time with something better. I started walking, journaling, or listening to audiobooks in the morning. Not motivational, just real stuff I liked and could focus on. That small change helped more than I expected. I feel calmer, more alert, and I don’t need my phone glued to me like before. If you’re someone who wants a specific book rec or how I got started with the audiobooks, just DM me. I’ll share what helped me. This probably won’t magically fix your whole life. But it was a solid first step, and that’s all I needed. submitted by /u/Psychological-Way324 to r/getdisciplined [link] [comments]

I've had a long history with phone addiction. Almost a decade. I wish I could tell myself this a decade ago: Doomscrolling isn’t passive; it’s an act of absorbing the world’s chaos. Every headline, every comment, every piece of bad news—it all sinks in. It’s not just information you’re taking in; it’s anxiety, fear, and helplessness. The more we consume the noise, the harder it becomes to hear ourselves. But here’s the thing: The chaos out there is a mirror for the chaos within. Doomscrolling often isn’t about staying informed—it’s about distraction. A way to avoid something: an emotion, a thought, or a deeper discomfort. The more you scroll, the more fragmented your attention becomes. It’s like trying to calm yourself by staring into a storm—it doesn’t work. What would happen if you stopped scrolling and looked inward instead? That ache to know more from doomscrolling might just be a call to feel more. The endless scroll isn’t solving anything. What you’re seeking—a sense of safety, control, or understanding—might only be found by stepping away. It's time to step away to a more simple life that gives you the mental headspace to breathe again. That's how you actually solve your personal problems. If you’re ready to step away: Start small. Add a grayscale filter on your phone. It's a great first way to step away from the chaos of social media. I use this all the time, and only toggle it off during Facetimes / pictures. Seeing the beautiful colorful world around a lifeless, gray phone never gets old. Limit phone access during your most vulnerable times: mornings, evenings, or when you’re feeling drained or stressed. I set up my phone with superhappy, so I'm only able to unlock social media if I first chat with an AI. It keeps me mindful and intentional. Replace the urge to scroll with something grounding: write a thought down, stretch your body, or sit in silence for just one minute. Don’t underestimate boredom—it’s often where clarity begins. Let yourself feel restless; it’s the bridge to reconnecting with yourself. You don’t have to keep staring into the mirror. Put the phone down and see what’s waiting for you on the other side. So: why are you doomscrolling today? What has helped you step away, even for just a moment? submitted by /u/WompTune to r/simpleliving [link] [comments]

A lot of the Internet articles I see are, “Clean the house!” “Learn a new skill!” “Do a DIY project like painting furniture!” Bruh. When I get home from a long day I have no energy. Those ideas are just too much for a burnt out ADHD soul. I need stimulating but not full-of-energy activities. Suggestions? submitted by /u/tbgmdhc278 to r/ADHD [link] [comments]