Doomscrolling! When You Just Can't Stop Scrolling Through The Ick!

The Virtual Couch

Tony Overbay LMFT

Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

5 • 643 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Tony explains "Doomscrolling," or when one feels like they can't break loose from continually scrolling through newsfeeds, or social media despite the fact that the more one scrolls, the worse one feels. Tony references the article "Understanding Doomscrolling," by Simone Scully https://psychcentral.com/anxiety/what-is-doomscrolling#tips-to-stop (https://psychcentral.com/anxiety/what-is-doomscrolling#tips-to-stop)Visit http://tonyoverbay.com/worksho (http://tonyoverbay.com/worksho)p to sign up for Tony’s “Magnetize Your Marriage” virtual workshop. The cost is only $19, and you’ll learn the top 3 things you can do NOW to create a Magnetic Marriage. With the continuing "sheltering" rules spreading across the country, PLEASE do not think you can't continue or begin therapy now. http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch (http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch) can put you quickly in touch with licensed mental health professionals who can meet through text, email, or videoconference often as soon as 24-48 hours. And if you use the link http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch (http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch), you will receive 10% off your first month of services. Please make your mental health a priority, http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch (http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch) offers affordable counseling, and they even have sliding scale options if your budget is tight.You can learn more about Tony's pornography recovery program, The Path Back, by visiting http://pathbackrecovery.com And visit http://tonyoverbay.com (http://tonyoverbay.com/) and signing up to receive updates on upcoming programs and podcasts.Tony mentioned a product that he used to take out all of the "uh's" and "um's" that, in his words, "must be created by wizards and magic!" because it's that good! To learn more about Descript, click here https://descript.com?lmref=bSWcEQ (https://descript.com/?lmref=bSWcEQ)

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0:00.0	Hey, oh, oh, come on and take a seat on the virtual couch.
0:21.6	Hey, everybody, welcome to the virtual couch.
0:23.6	My name is Tony Overbay.
0:24.6	This is episode number 323.
0:25.6	I did that all backwards, but I still am a licensed marriage and family therapist.
0:29.6	And continuing by popular demand, if you go to Tonyoverbay.com slash workshop, I have an hour and a half marriage communication workshop where I talk
0:40.2	about how we show up in relationships, the fact that just being part of the human race, you are
0:47.2	emotionally immature coming out of your childhood and your adolescence. And all of a sudden,
0:51.5	we meet somebody and we just want to get it right. We have
0:54.5	these deep seated abandonment fears or wounds and so we're trying to show up in a relationship
0:59.5	and make sure that we don't mess it up. And then over the process of relationships, life happens.
1:05.1	We get jobs. We have kids. People get sick. We have to move. We have financial pressures.
1:10.6	And that's when we realize,
1:12.0	we are two different people in this relationship with two completely different experiences growing up.
1:15.7	Even if during the courtship and early on in our relationship, we felt like everything was so easy.
1:20.2	And it's easy because you're, quite frankly, you're not dealing with a whole lot of things
1:24.1	right out of the gate. I mean, you're dealing with the things that newlyweds or people early in a relationship deal with. But when stuff starts to go down,
1:30.3	when stuff starts to happen in your life, that's when you find out, oh, we have different
1:33.5	opinions. And it is so normal, so natural to not truly know how to effectively communicate.
1:39.5	And if you are the person that feels like, no, my marriage is a breeze. Like, this has been a piece of cake. Does your spouse have a voice? Do you truly understand and know them? Or do you feel like,
1:51.0	of course, I know what they're thinking? Because if you do, that may mean that they don't feel
1:55.4	like they are able to express themselves because you are often probably telling them,
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