I agree with you that the media is exaggerating and over reporting on negative things. That’s how they make money. The loss of the subscription model and the 24hr News cycle really hurt objective reporting that’s why I said I don’t blame you or OP for “head in the sanding it”.
If it’s better for your mental health to get rid of that shit- you do you. I’ll probably be there in a couple years if this shit don’t stop. I’m cut out a significant ammount of doom scrolling myself- especially since I left Reddit.
I’ve never understood that part tbh “if it’s better for your mental health” we don’t really have time for that right now. Especially because this mentality is what led to our exact situation. People only worrying about the small scale picture that is their life while everything burns around them.
The time to prevent the crisis is now and people should def not be ignoring it BUT the crisis is not here fully yet and when it comes we need mentally healthy people mitigating it.
Fear can turn to existential dread and if they’ve been doom scrolling their entire life they’re going to be more likely to “deer in the headlights” or just accept their fate and roll over and die.
I agree with you that the media is exaggerating and over reporting on negative things. That’s how they make money. The loss of the subscription model and the 24hr News cycle really hurt objective reporting that’s why I said I don’t blame you or OP for “head in the sanding it”.
If it’s better for your mental health to get rid of that shit- you do you. I’ll probably be there in a couple years if this shit don’t stop. I’m cut out a significant ammount of doom scrolling myself- especially since I left Reddit.
I’ve never understood that part tbh “if it’s better for your mental health” we don’t really have time for that right now. Especially because this mentality is what led to our exact situation. People only worrying about the small scale picture that is their life while everything burns around them.
The time to prevent the crisis is now and people should def not be ignoring it BUT the crisis is not here fully yet and when it comes we need mentally healthy people mitigating it.
Fear can turn to existential dread and if they’ve been doom scrolling their entire life they’re going to be more likely to “deer in the headlights” or just accept their fate and roll over and die.