Doomscrolling is not about information. It's the architecture of the feed making catastrophe the most efficient content. You watch because stopping feels naive. Because knowing feels like control. Because the void of not watching is somehow worse than the dread of watching.

Anonymous thoughts about doomscrolling posted here are honest about the compulsion and what it costs — the sleep, the mood, the low-grade dread that doesn't lift because you never stop feeding it.