How to Stop Doomscrolling: Practical Tips to Break the Habit
Learn how to stop doomscrolling with screen time limits, helpful apps, and better digital habits.
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How to Stop Doomscrolling: Practical Tips to Break the Habit
The world is bad sometimes, but it feels even worse if you can’t stop staring into the all-consuming abyss that is the 6-inch screen of a smartphone, following you through space and time. It taunts you with its compact, light build that’s small enough to slip into your pocket and take anywhere, and its siren call is so strong that for some reason, we cannot sleep without our phone on our nightstands. Image:rob dobi / Getty Images As we weather the horrors around us, it may occur to you that you would feel calmer and more attentive and balanced if you did not pick up your phone dozens of times a day to doomscroll. It’s messing with our brains to intersperse our day with glimpses into the most extreme, engagement-baiting TikToks, only to flip over to X or Bluesky and see crushing news headlines. Like any bad habit, doomscrolling is hard to kick. But it’s not hopeless. So how do you stop doomscrolling? It’s not all that easy, but we have some ideas about how you can set yourself up fo…
