Why we can’t stop scrolling
kathmandupost.com · Tue Jul 07 01:08:38 GMT 2026

Doomscrolling is more than a bad habit. It is a coping mechanism shaped by cognitive dissonance and the brain’s bias towards negative information.
When a person’s thoughts no longer align with their actions, cognitive dissonance emerges as an inevitable force. It exists in between the contradictions of awareness and action, between emotional exhaustion and compulsive return.
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