Following a creation of a thread on here the other day about how to stop doomscrolling in response to the Ukraine/Russia thing, I thought I would create a general one that's not in response to any specific issue, as the phenomenon covers many issues.

I did a bit of research on doomscrolling online this morning and the term was first coined around autumn 2018, predating the Covid pandemic by over a year, but became one of the 'buzzwords' of 2020 and 2021.

Personally, I think the practice of doomscrolling probably goes back more than a decade before 2018, with events like the Global Financial Crisis springing to mind?

Of course, 'fake news' had also become a buzzword by late 2016, as many of you probably know.