Exposure to too much bad news can affect your health
Doomscrolling can lead to adrenaline fatigue
28 June 2021 - 09:38
In 2019 and last year the average daily social media user would spend 145 minutes on their devices, which comes to around two hours and 24 minutes every day. Add to this the disruption of the pandemic, which has increased our need to be up to date with the latest statistics, and media reporting has gone into hyper-drive.
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