This is hidden brain.
I'm Shankar Vedanta.
When historians write the narrative of life in 2020, they're going to have a lot of ground to cover.
One of the topics that might be easy to overlook is doom scrolling.
Another 4 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits.
Florida recorded record high numbers of coronavirus cases today.
Trump supporters clashed with Black Lives Matter protesters at the Washington monument.
A case of bubonic whether or not you've used the term, you've probably engaged in doom scrolling over the last few months.
It's the uncontrollable urge to consume.
Terrible story, not a terrible story.
Increasingly urgent questions emerge about how schools will safely open.
Swine flu, maybe the next pandemic we face.
This stream of bad news flows ceaselessly through our social media feeds at every hour of the day.
Nearly 7 million households opioid overdoses are on the rise as coronavirus slew.
Statue of abolitionist Frederick double face addiction in July.
Statue of abolitionist Frederick Douglass ripped from its base at a local park.
So many of us are unable to turn away from the avalanche of bad news, and it's easy to understand why we are drawn to doom scrolling.
We're trying desperately to make sense of a year that has been disruptive and devastating in so many different ways.
There are many terrible and difficult problems we face today, and they deserve our attention.
But sometimes we can get so consumed by what is going wrong that it can keep us from seeing what is going right.