The news is depressing as fuck.

The more I look around just on social media, let alone in real life, the more I realise it’s doing people’s heads in. Like, it’s really not good for us.

My own mum (retired, sat in front of TV until the weekend) is climbing the walls with anxiety about covid, bills, politics, war, and whilst she is an extreme example, I’ve been feeling it too and noticing how addicted I am to finding out the next thing.

This needs to fucking stop. She’s fine, I’m fine, yes there’s some things we need to know, but it doesn’t need to be saturating our minds and it really really is.

So I’m fucking it off. I’ve used Freedom.to to block all devices from looking at BBC/CNN/sky news etc and I’m no longer even having any radio with news on in the background in the lounge.

I invite you to join in and maybe we can focus on what is good and what serves us, and you know, live a bit.

    I’d miss the Archers too much.

    I need radio.

    NasserAlazzawi So I’m fucking it off. I’ve used Freedom.to to block all devices from looking at BBC/CNN/sky news etc and I’m no longer even having any radio with news on in the background in the lounge.

    I invite you to join in and maybe we can focus on what is good and what serves us

    Putin hates your guts Nas, and is gonna make sure yours is the first house he targets when he wheels the nukes out.

    And don’t even think about trying to flee - a freak hurricane is coming to wreck any chance you have of escaping that island you’re on.

    Best hole yourself in a basement with some cyanide capsules so you can quickly end things once the apocalypse is inevitably looming.

    I hope your anxiety improves!

        NasserAlazzawi Program your own mind, if not, it will be programmed for you.

        It’s a hopeless task trying to keep up with what’s actual etc. Information coming at you from everywhere 24/7 all fighting for your precious time and attention. All trying to sway your feelings one way or the other.

        Just drop all the social media. And if there’s any mews that will actually impact you as an individual, it will find you. You don’t have to go looking for it and you are certainly not missing anything by not participating in all this bs.

        I watch YouTube videos for tutorials etc and I make some of my own.. not sure if that counts as social media. Just stay away from reading the comment section of other videos 😂

          Earlier on this year I stuck a 30 min limit on accessing Twitter, Instagram, Facebook etc on my phone, as I was fed up of wasting time reading about shit going on. And I should be reading the FT, the Economist more.

          Now I feel I want tip go back to watch shite in Instagram rather than everything going on in the news

          Binned off terrestrial tv during lockdown and have blocked news networks on Social Media. The bullshit still filters through occasionally though, but my mental health is better for it

          Why watch the news when you have JC?

          All the erudite and informed opinions you need are right here.

            As pointed out in the Hurricane Ian thread - a thread about a devastating natural disaster deteriorated into videos of Frank Butcher naked in less than 20 posts. We’ve got this.