This weekend, I was a little disturbed when the screen time alert popped up on my phone, telling me how much time I had spent on it over the last week. It said, "Your screen time was up 170% from last week." A hundred and seventy percent!?! That seems a little extreme.

Last week, there were (gesturing broadly) things going on. So it makes sense that I was doomscrolling a little bit. But that number made me stop and think about what is happening when I'm obsessively looking at social media.

When the world is changing, when something is upsetting in the world, I start to feel threatened, and my brain starts searching for answers. It's wondering, "What the F*@% is going on?!? How am I going to feel OK again?"

In this episode, I talked about what's happening here and some ideas about what to do about it.