Avoiding reading/watching the news recently to keep your sanity? Me too!!

[NaturesMantra]

I don't know about you all but reading the tabloids or any social media, the ones focusing on 'how many deaths' there has been, can really burden your good mood.

So in order to keep my sanity, I've been avoiding watching the news, especially on flouting MPs and just being on my own bubble.

It really does help when you are not bombarded with tragic stories, or celebrities/influencers having "a great time" in their fake-mansions, doesn't it?

Does anyone else feel the same?

I have only just started looking at the BBC news app again, after I stopped when the lockdown began in March. My mental health was so much better. If I'm honest I wish I'd never started looking at it again.

@mrsjg I completely agree. It can really improve your mood focusing on what is there in front of you, doesn't it?

I haven't watched tv news for years. I found myself shouting at the TV. I prefer the short snippets on the radio and if an item tweeks my interest i search online

I've stopped watching too, it's got so depressing. I think the broadcasters aren't really in tune with what the general public want either. Take the Cummings story, yes it's news but for days on end? There are other things going on in the world which I want to hear about!

I just get my news from the Reuter's Twitter feed, just the basic headlines in case I need to know something. I have managed to avoid tv news/websites since the end of March. I don't watch This Morning etc because they will be covering it. The news was literally doing my head in.

Yes, I can't watch it. I read selectively when I'm up for it.

Haven’t watched it since lockdown began
Hardly watched it before that either.
We were In Tenerife when Lockdown started. My dd said , mum, if you get offered a flight home, you will get on it won’t you
Ah, um, ok
( I was thinking of staying. Didn’t really think it was that serious)

I’ve managed to keep on the the right side of sane most of the time thankfully
It has helped that we left winter behind and gone into summer..but to have to curtail my holiday short was a bit meh!

I was obsessed at the beginning of lockdown and just before. I needed to know everything. Then DH got very ill (recovered fully now) and I was dealing with that and three kids, as well as working. I had a constant knot of anxiety that turned into actual pain, so I stopped. Stopped reading everything, listening to everything, chose what I accessed carefully. The content of my job has been affected by the pandemic, so I've had to read things for that, and that was more than enough. I started to feel better.

Now I'm out of that initial panicky phase, I can read more and watch more without sending myself crazy. I think I managed to reach a good balance of being informed with the necessary without being dangerously bogged down to with the detail.