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Doomscrolling — the compulsive act of consuming an endless feed of catastrophic news — was named one of Oxford Dictionary's words of 2020. Psychologists say the more anxious we become, the more we seek out news that confirms our fears. Breaking the cycle may be harder than it sounds. According to The Center for Internet & Technology Addiction 58% of teens report anxiety when separated from their phones./Photo: Pexels.com/@cottonbro For a few weeks at the start of the pandem