I have work I need to do but I find myself scrolling here and on 
for hours at a time. It feels paralyzing but also its hard to stop. Not like reading about Lolitics* makes me feel good so why am I addicted to it ๐
- I was gonna correct that but it works. LOLitics, because everything is fucked so hard you just gotta laugh...
Sometimes your brain needs a break from work and a dopamine novelty hit will get you back on track.
Feed apps have a random chance of giving you the dopamine novelty hit, but it's pretty small, and usually it's not a very good one. But our brains are trash at randomly sized rewards - that's why people get addicted to gambling and gacha games - so you'll unthinkingly go check one of those trash fires to look for one.
Once you recognize that's what you're looking for, you can go get it somewhere that'll actually give it to you. Which doesn't have to be something profound or classy, it can be watching an old episode of The Muppets or Dragonball Z Abridged or a cute cat video or solving a sudoku.
Often you'll get halfway through whatever that is and feel kind of bored of it - the scrollers have trained you that means to go back to searching, but that's actually your signal that you've gotten what you needed and it's time to go back to work.