As summer shines down on the Chattahoochee Valley, many CSU students are now able to enjoy much needed free time. However, the pull to simply lie in bed and scroll through your phone can be equal parts alluring and dangerous to your mental health.
While going online can sometimes promote a greater feeling of connectedness and can be important to keeping up with events, too much time spent online can adversely affect your health. This phenomenon is called “doomscrolling”, where people will be compelled to sit in bed and do nothing but scroll through their phones, often watching terrible events unfold on social media.
Harvard reports that this can have a real impact on the public’s health, both physical and mental. On the physical side, prolonged doomscrolling sessions can cause higher blood pressure and increase muscle tension, along with disrupting sleep routines. As for mental health, doomscrolling can have a major impact on the overall sense of well-being, even resulting in anxiety intense enough to cause nausea…