Traumatised by the news

I think when you’ve just had kids and read about child abuse cases it does seem to hit you, more that it would have pre-kids. I try not to read the detail of these such cases now. The Daniel Pelka one hit me particularly hard as I had my first around the same time that all happened!

I gave up on reading too much of it during Covid. Some papers seemed almost gleeful to spread doom. Now I just piece my news together from memes and shitposts on Twitter. Not very grown up really but I am a lot happier. 😆 x

It’s all the video imo.
I don’t need my young people being able to watch people being murdered. I don’t want to see people actually dying. I think watching footage of awful events actually causes problems for people’s mental health.

I do think there are too many social media outlets keen to provide additional distressing details and speculation and it can be hard to avoid them when scrolling Facebook for example. The current one is the horrific abuse and murder of Preston Davey and I find I’ve had to really cut down on my scrolling.
I think you should do the same.

Some people just don't give a stuff. And some care too much.

I'm wondering if that might be a good way forward. Thanks pp

Oh yeah 100%

I think this past couple of weeks news will stay with me a long time, and not in a good way.

I agree with a pp about news round/John Craven being soothing, I think I might try and completely quit the news now.

I don't watch the news at all now. It really helps to just be informed about stuff happening in your own family, work and social group. I might dip into world news once a month.
It's not good for us to be hearing bad news every day, and about things that don't concern us and we can't do anything about.

Try "The Week" magazine. Keeps you up to date with UK & foreign news, including what various newspapers & news sites have said. Non-sensational. Read as much or as little as you want, and avoid the tv bulletins & news sites in the knowledge that you're not becoming ignorant. I really like it.

theweek.com/uk

Christ some people on here are arseholes aren't they?

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I remember being made to watch the news aged 10, before I started secondary school, and thinking how awful news was.

People fear switching news off in case they miss something “important” happening in the world. My view is that if something really significant happens, you willl find out about it one way or another.

One thing of many that pissed me off about 2020 was that even fiction couldn’t provide an escape. It was all about the bloody virus: it was in storylines about everything. Masks on TV all the time, socially distanced broadcasts, and if you wanted to watch YouTube, lots of masks in the adverts as well.

Just grammatically, in the interests of clarity.

I was using a conditional phrasing between two propositional points, the latter as a consequence of the former:

Protasis: if one (impersonal, singular) does not find a thread of use
Apodosis: then one could be within a reasonable course of action to no longer engage with a particular thread.

No one has to do anything I tell them to do (just ask my toddler). But I maintain that my post was accurate; although the syntax was truncated for brevity, with it being a post on an internet forum.

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Mainstream news is just “the most shocking things that happened today”.

Short or long term it's not normal behaviour and definitely worth a trip to your GP.

If they happen to diagnose a mental illness, it's best to diagnose sooner rather than later.

'Physically sick, retching and literally sobbing' due to recent news events heavily suggests some mental health issues.

You are very unhelpful. You do realise this is a chat site? Not everyone thinks as you do. I'd rather read their answers than your one word sarcasm.

We’re not evolved to be battered over the head constantly by all the awful things happening to many, in all of the places, all at the same time.

Some of us were trained to watch the news to stay informed, as a mark of culture, intelligence and civic responsibility. Which was fine in the 70s when it was Newsround. But as a habit in the 2020s, with rolling 24/7 “if it bleeds, it leads” news that earn from frantic clicking. Not so much.

When I had a chatgpt subscription if would send me daily news updates, with no headlines, no pictures, no opinion, just the facts. The news items were in order of likelyhood of impacting me personally. So I don’t need to hear about bombs and guns no where near my bit of woodland. Just tell me if petrol might go up a bit.

Since I cancelled the subscription I lost that (really very useful’ service.

So I settle for an occasional glancing of headlines, just two or three times a week. Followed by a nice walk in nature.

Bring back Newsround. Make it a world service. Humanity’s cortisol levels did better in the era of John Craven.

When did I tell you what to do.

Christ and I thought my memory was bad 😳

"If you don't find it useful, scroll on by."

No-one has to find a thread 'useful' in order to post on it, otherwise the only people posting would be those with exactly the same problem they haven't managed to solve.