{"id":34852,"date":"2022-04-26T15:51:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T15:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=34852"},"modified":"2022-04-26T15:51:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T15:51:57","slug":"why-doomscrolling-really-is-bad-news-it-was-a-term-popularised-during-the-covid-pandemic-now-experts-warn-of-the-dangers-of-an-addiction-to-bleak-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2022\/04\/26\/why-doomscrolling-really-is-bad-news-it-was-a-term-popularised-during-the-covid-pandemic-now-experts-warn-of-the-dangers-of-an-addiction-to-bleak-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Why doomscrolling really IS bad news: It was a term popularised during the Covid pandemic. Now experts warn of the dangers of an addiction to bleak coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29309\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/sedentary-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/sedentary-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/sedentary-500x271.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/sedentary-360x195.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/sedentary.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A tank crushes a car with its Ukrainian driver inside. Within hours of the shocking incident earlier this year, more than eight million people\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-10752385\/Experts-warn-dangers-addiction-bleak-coverage.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A tank crushes a car with its Ukrainian driver inside. Within hours of the shocking incident earlier this year, more than eight&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/sedentary.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34853,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34852\/revisions\/34853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}