How do you cope with the news?

[cumbriaisbest]

I feel utter despair. Really.

Famine and a question mark.. Really?

Exactly natural disaster is bad enough when famine ensues but a man made famine orchestrated on purpose is pure evil.
No matter your stance on politics or religion this is surely unacceptable on a humane level if nothing else.

Just don’t watch it - especially BBC which endlessly catastrophises.
I haven’t had a TV licence for years but occasionally see the news at my parents house and it just makes them anxious, and in the Covid years totally batshit paranoid.

I avoid it completely, as it is far too depressing. The only time I really hear of anything is if someone mentions something at work. The rest of the time, we're in a little bubble as what's happening in big cities isn't always relevant to people who live in deepest darkest countryside!

Now, if it was happy news, I might be more inclined to watch or read it!

By not reading it. I stopped reading it in covid.It was so depressing.

There is nothing I can do about it.

I don't understand news junkies who read it constantly

I glance at:
BBC app
Guardian App

and we get The Week and the Sunday Times which I flick through at the weekend and read the articles that interest me.

I don’t watch news on the telly, I only listen to podcasts (one newsy one - Political
Currency) not radio.

I stopped watching the news during the pandemic. Prior, I watched and felt like I had the weight of the world on my shoulders worrying about everything and everyone. If there is anything massive I need to know about, it’s usually a discussion point in work
chit chat. Otherwise, I’d rather not know. I know it’s the ostrich effect, but it is better for my anxiety that way.

Thing is, this is what they do, we have such despair that we all start to turn off and not watch. They do it on purpose. Then very few are “watching” the government/big corps etc and that’s when they start changing laws/putting through crazy regulations, because we’ve all turned off. Everyone laughs at the Media degree, but it’s the most dangerous thing out there controlling us and we just let it. The system isn’t broken, it was made this way on purpose.

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I just get the headlines once or twice a day and don’t give it any more thought. It’s almost become easier recently as I feel pretty dissociated. I also understand things aren’t any worse than at other periods. There’s just more of the news

I fimd it sad and I have great sympathy for those going through these awful things, but I don't have a lasting emotional reaction to it. I doubt most people do tbh, otherwise they would struggle to actually function in their day-to-day lives, given the number of disasters and sad things that happen around the world every day.

Sure, it’s totally unacceptable. But it’s also out of my remit. I’m on this earth for a short time and, whilst I would do something if I could, I can’t. So why would I waste my precious 60,70, 80 years depressed about it?

I wouldn't either.

Yes I agree. The news is horrendous and has been for awhile. I have to wonder why, because it’s making a whole nation ignorant and depressed quite frankly. I think there needs to be a new agenda of new items with good news 50-50 with bad and to be honest, I’ve stopped listening to anything with the orange T in it because he’s an attention seeking beep.
It’s hard but I try & focus my time and energy on positive stories like the diary of a CEO and YouTube of positivity, manifestations or interviews like Steve Bartlett or Paul C Brunson to find out the good and bad of peoples life stories.
Good luck and replace all that negativity with positive apps or manifestations or read a good positive book, phone a friend, meet a friend or learn a language or do a hobby xxxx

Stop watching the news.
If you do see anything develop some boundaries for yourself so you’re not ruining your life as well.
We can make a bigger impact on others by doing that. If we live in misery, no matter how noble the cause, our impact on others is to bring them down too.
If there’s something practical you can do - donate money, write to MP - then do it, but if there isn’t you can’t live a life full of the despair of people you don’t know, it’s a hopeless route to travel. Have compassion, but learn to protect yourself.

I don’t watch the news

I take a look at the headlines sometimes on BBC News or elsewhere to keep vaguely in the loop. But I usually don’t read the details. Reading or watching the full news makes me miserable and benefits nobody so best if I don’t.