Cognitive Development

Doomscrolling & Writer's Block: Why News Kills Creativity?

The Scroll That Steals Your Words Doomscrolling is silently stealing the words you planned to write today.You wake up with full intention and start wr

fatimab 8 min read · 5 months ago

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The Scroll That Steals Your Words

Doomscrolling is silently stealing the words you planned to write today.

You wake up with full intention and start writing on the spot. But instead, you open your phone and are bombarded with political chaos, inflation updates, crime news, and global wars with outrage threads. Your “two minutes” of scrolling quietly turn into forty-five.

Rather than feeling focused, you feel stressed, anxious, distracted, and mentally noisy. You try to sit down and write, but you are unfortunately unable to write a few sentences.

Doomscrolling is silently becoming one of the biggest causes of writer’s block, especially for Pakistani writers. They are constantly exposed to intense news cycles, overstimulating their brains and draining mental energy. Your daily scroll has quietly become a creativity killer.