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The one change that worked: I swapped doomscrolling for reading comic books
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After a long day of looking at screens for work, the reporter used to go to bed and stare at their phone until the reporter fell asleep.
Key facts
- That changed in late 2024, when the reporter finally decided to ditch doomscrolling
- From there, the reporter moved on to their father’s 2000 AD collection – which, to a young teenager, held a rather illicit thrill due to its intensely violent strips
- After a long day of looking at screens for work, the reporter used to go to bed and stare at their phone until the reporter fell asleep
- When not doomscrolling news headlines, the reporter would crash out to hateful comments on social media or revisit workplace dramas via mobile versions of Teams and Slack
Summary
It was a ritual that would start well before bedtime. When sleep did arrive, it would be restless and anxiety-ridden. With their brain swimming with fears of various apocalypses and the vitriol of online agitators, it’s no wonder their dreams were full of the same. The reporter would been a voracious comic book reader as a youth, growing up in the early 1990s on a diet of the Beano and Dandy, before graduating to The Adventures of Tintin and Asterix. But as an adult in their 30s, the reporter wasn’t the devout reader the reporter once had been.