{"id":76205,"date":"2025-06-08T00:29:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T00:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=76205"},"modified":"2025-06-08T00:29:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T00:29:48","slug":"two-hours-doomscrolling-can-double-teenagers-risk-of-anxiety-and-quadruple-chance-of-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/08\/two-hours-doomscrolling-can-double-teenagers-risk-of-anxiety-and-quadruple-chance-of-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"Two hours &#8216;doomscrolling&#8217; can double teenagers&#8217; risk of anxiety and quadruple chance of depression"},"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 decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1GhQpC.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Teens who spend more than two hours a day scrolling on phones or tablets double their risk of developing anxiety and quadruple their chances of depression , say scientists\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Teens who spend more than two hours a day scrolling on phones or tablets double their risk of developing anxiety and quadruple their chances of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/depression\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">depression<\/a>, say scientists. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/health-news\/two-hours-doomscrolling-can-double-teenagers-risk-of-anxiety-and-quadruple-chance-of-depression\/ar-AA1GhHzf?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=dd41723e494640b280d12a89b9b33dab&amp;ei=34\">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>Teens who spend more than two hours a day scrolling on phones or tablets double their risk of developing anxiety and quadruple&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-76205","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\/2025\/06\/Doomscrolling.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76205","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=76205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76207,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76205\/revisions\/76207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}