How to stop compulsively checking the news (Coronavirus Anxiety Daily Update 3)

In today’s podcast, you’ll learn the following:

-Why you can't stop checking the news
-Why information is like food
-Why you sometimes get a surge of emotions when you read a big news headline, and what to do about it
-The concept of intermittent reinforcement and how this drives your news consumption behavior
-What to do if you are already in the habit of constantly checking the news
-The role of limits and how to set them
-The key question to ask yourself after you check the news. My lab has studied how this simple question can help people stop overeating, and you can use the same trick to help you stop over-consuming news.
-How to check in with your body and mind

Here's a link to the animation on how to hack our brain's natural reward mechanisms to break bad habits like overeating that I mentioned in the video: https://drjud.com/hacking-your-brains...

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