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Don’t Let Doomscrolling Derail You
Creatives are not Nero fiddling as the world burns.
Wow, did I make a big mistake today. I get on my computer, after my morning reading, ready to write this post, and I found that I’d left a certain tab on my browser open. Facebook.
Before long, I went past a couple of perfectly innocuous posts and stumbled across something political. Immediately, my heart sank. Is this really how things are going?
Before long, I was stupefied. My brain fought all rational thought as I kept scrolling and finding more to be distressed about.
Doomscrolling is a form of autopilot. It draws you in, drags you down, and if you have any kindness, compassion, and empathy in you, it makes you feel awful. How is this where we’re at? How did we get here? What can we do?
This way lies madness. Before long, doomscrolling has a hold of your attention; distracts you with fear, doom, and gloom; and derails your plots, plans, and actions.
What can you do to stop doomscrolling from derailing you?
Take small steps of active conscious awareness
I sat here in front of the screen for a while, trying and failing to pull myself away. Doomscrolling threatened to derail not just this…
