What happens when you trade doomscrolling for hopescrolling

What happens when you trade doomscrolling for hopescrolling

My students tell me that they don’t sleep. They stay up all night endlessly scrolling their social media feeds. Their attention has been captured, but not by anything in particular, not really, they say. Like a lot of us, my students are chronic doomscrollers. And, like a lot of us, they’re miserable as a result. Doomscrolling—which psychologists define as “the compulsive act of endlessly scrolling through negative or distressing news on social …