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Hilton Mervis, Daniel s father and partner in a law firm, welcomed the report, saying: This is the first occasion when a university has been required to take a holistic look at its drug misuse policy. Hopefully it will be the catalyst for significant but easy changes which involve students and universities working together to prevent future deaths. At the heart of this is allowing students to get help for themselves or their friends without automatic sanction. The scale and impact of drug misuse and addiction in those failing to complete the university degrees or dying will never be known until there is a more open and honest dialogue within universities.
Alondra Llompart needed a break from everything happening on social media.
Llompart, from Bayamón, Puerto Rico, decided she would delete all her social media apps for a week after feeling headaches and anxiety due to what she calls excessive doomscrolling. She removed Instagram, Twitter and YouTube from her phone. If I find myself feeling sad and self-deprecating, I know it s because I m consuming too much social media, said the 23-year-old. I especially feel this on Instagram, where I find myself comparing myself to others, and on Twitter, where the doomscrolling comes in.
Doomscrolling, or doomsurfing, refers to the tendency to continue to scroll through bad news despite the content being saddening, disheartening or depressing. As people have flocked to social media for COVID-19 health information, updates on the presidential transition and entertainment, some people might feel burned out due to excessive social media use. The riots on Capitol Hill Jan. 6 had p
A man living with depression and anxiety offers three ways to stop "doomscrolling" the news for your mental health after the January 6, 2021 events at Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.