How often do you get annoyed by all the gloomy news?
I want to be informed but everything in the news depresses me or makes me angry.
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I try to go to my local news or pay attention to national news and it's all depressing stuff. It really affects me. Covid news, murders, corruption, bullying. It's literally 90% negative and it makes me feel for all those people. it has also spilled over to documentaries. Documentaries can be very interesting but again there are some about corruption and over fishing and deforestation and big pharma, the list goes on. And I can't help but feel like the world is going to shit.
Should I just avoid all of this or is there a way to consume some of this without getting so emotional about it? Edit: Lots of great advice here. Thank you! I'm going to try to focus my energy on me and controlling what I can control. And if I really need to know something then someone will tell me. I think I'll just focus on reading and writing for now. The news will NEVER be positive. Even if there was a news network in heaven, it would find something negative to talk about. It can only make money by injecting you with negative emotions and riling you up. Avoiding the news is the cheapest and fastest way to improving your mental health. I am fascinated by news junkies who have CNN or BBC World on any of the 24/7 French news channels on constantly. Me - I read four newspapers every day on line and occasionally catch the news on the radio. And I have a new rule. No looking at a news website after 19h30. Otherwise it infiltrates my consciousness and disturbs sleep later into that night.
We are living on a knife edge right now. Just when we all thought we were emerging from Covid chaos - and our deeply restricted lives - this ongoing Putin insanity in the Ukraine comes along. It remains, many months after the initial invasion, high stakes poker - with Putin essentially telling the West: “Shall we play ‘call my bluff’”. A Russian leader threatening the nuclear option while engaging in what is nothing more than a land grab. Add to this the fiscal madness of Liz Truss, the arrival of a far right government in Italy, and the specter of more politically divisive chaos in the US... is it any wonder that sleep for so many people I know right now is an infrequent event? We are living in deeply troubled times. I normally watch the news in the morning and before dinner, but I will copy your night rule. Although being informed on the general situation is a must these days, I will not permit them (the news)to destroy the right to my sleep (so hardly gained every single night). Having said the above, I tend not to think about all the chaos we’re living in these days, it may feed my tendency to depression, while instead we must be brave and strong in the face of all this. Taking care of an old parent helps to feel useful at least for the family. Reading/watching other stories and forgetting the real world for an hour or two is a further choice, don’t you think? We live in very scary times quite indeed!
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I try to go to my local news or pay attention to national news and it's all depressing stuff. It really affects me. Covid news, murders, corruption, bullying. It's literally 90% negative and it makes me feel for all those people. it has also spilled over to documentaries. Documentaries can be very interesting but again there are some about corruption and over fishing and deforestation and big pharma, the list goes on. And I can't help but feel like the world is going to shit.
Should I just avoid all of this or is there a way to consume some of this without getting so emotional about it? Edit: Lots of great advice here. Thank you! I'm going to try to focus my energy on me and controlling what I can control. And if I really need to know something then someone will tell me. I think I'll just focus on reading and writing for now. The news will NEVER be positive. Even if there was a news network in heaven, it would find something negative to talk about. It can only make money by injecting you with negative emotions and riling you up. Avoiding the news is the cheapest and fastest way to improving your mental health. I am fascinated by news junkies who have CNN or BBC World on any of the 24/7 French news channels on constantly. Me - I read four newspapers every day on line and occasionally catch the news on the radio. And I have a new rule. No looking at a news website after 19h30. Otherwise it infiltrates my consciousness and disturbs sleep later into that night.
We are living on a knife edge right now. Just when we all thought we were emerging from Covid chaos - and our deeply restricted lives - this ongoing Putin insanity in the Ukraine comes along. It remains, many months after the initial invasion, high stakes poker - with Putin essentially telling the West: “Shall we play ‘call my bluff’”. A Russian leader threatening the nuclear option while engaging in what is nothing more than a land grab. Add to this the fiscal madness of Liz Truss, the arrival of a far right government in Italy, and the specter of more politically divisive chaos in the US... is it any wonder that sleep for so many people I know right now is an infrequent event? We are living in deeply troubled times. I normally watch the news in the morning and before dinner, but I will copy your night rule. Although being informed on the general situation is a must these days, I will not permit them (the news)to destroy the right to my sleep (so hardly gained every single night). Having said the above, I tend not to think about all the chaos we’re living in these days, it may feed my tendency to depression, while instead we must be brave and strong in the face of all this. Taking care of an old parent helps to feel useful at least for the family. Reading/watching other stories and forgetting the real world for an hour or two is a further choice, don’t you think? We live in very scary times quite indeed!
