To take a week off the news?

[blunderingto50]

It’s just madness lately. Environmental disaster, Royal hypocrisy, Trump insanity, Brexit ad nauseum...

The world will cope for five days without me won’t it? The political news in particular is making me doubt reality!

YABU. Take at least a month off!!

I know how you feel. Tempted to do same. Only that brexit news is moving so fast that I don't want to get left behind. I'm trying to minimise my obsession with keeping up with everything though.

I know, it’s Brexit that’s the issue But realistically, I’m not going to miss anything. And if it’s all called off someone’s sure to mention it to me!

I stopped watching it about 4 years ago. I get most of the news from Mumsnet.

I feel the same; fed up with Brexit, Boris, scandals, gossip, all of it.

YANBU - we call it the bad news in our house!

So bloody depressing!

I'm on holiday this week and just brows the BBC headlines on my app.No more.Myreafing it will not change anything.I am having a week ofwhilethe politicians are on holiday almost upto the Brexit deadline.

Yanbu. You won’t miss anything major and it’ll be a wee holiday for your brain.

I haven't watched it for a couple of years. I think all the news wants to do is create fear and uncertainty. You never hear anything positive anymore.

I took the grill l full year of each of my maternity leave off from news. Very liberating. Unfortunately I need to be fairly on top of it for my work or I'd never have started watching/reading it again!

Other threads on MN would suggest that I sure chose a week for it!

I think I need to expand my boundaries though, ie ‘no Brexit threads’.

I stopped watching about a month ago as it was getting me down. Haven’t missed it.

I’m an ex journalist and even I only listen to the headlines now. Two minutes on the hour if I’m in the car, or a quick scan of the BBC website otherwise.
Twenty minutes of banging on about Brexit bores the pants off me.

YANBU. I'm starting to think watching the news is affecting my mental health. Yes, it's still happening, but I'm happier in my unaware bubble. I hate myself for this

@kitk at a certain point I started to feel annoyed that Trump and Boris Johnson (to name but two) were taking up so much of my headspace with things that they themselves didn't actually give a shit about.

Politics is interesting and important when it involves people doing their best to do certain things, and genuinely believing that they're doing meaningful work.

From what I gather (not having seen the news Mon/Tues/Today), and from past experience, none of the above applies to Boris Johnson.

So why should I Iet him waste my time?

NB I'm neither in the UK nor British so I really WOULD be wasting my time. There's truly nothing I can do, as a forriner living over here in Forrin!

@blunderingto50 lucky to not be here. I worry constantly about stuff I can't control in my own life, but Brexit really has me panicked about our future