Anyone else considering coming off Mumsnet for the foreseeable?

[PlasterIt]

Because I can't cope with all the 'this will never end, this will be life forever now, it's going to last until 2023/24'.

I've honestly realised that no where else social media wise is so doom and gloom. There really doesn't seem to be this complete end of the world sentiment anywhere else other than on here.

I have always loved coming on here and reading and contributing to threads but I honestly don't think I can anymore. My mental health and anxiety is becoming considerably worse from being here.

Is anyone else feeling this way?

It's difficult to avoid Covid though - it is such a a huge elephant in the room, and a bigger part than something like Brexit.
It pervades every part of our lives.
So threads about education, employment, exercise, weight loss, childcare, mental health, parenting, money, SN, travel.
How can it not be discussed on pretty much all parts of mumsnet.
There are some corners that you will find respite- feminist boards, books and films, religion and philosophy.

Netmums has been an important part of keeping me afloat this past year- but I have found a cosy corner and a wonderful tribe of women.

I know what you mean, but I will stay because there is some wonderful support here too and I have met many wonderful women here.

I am finding the covid board draining as it's all either school threads or lock up the old and sick so we can get on with it threads and it just gets a bit much. I could do with a break from them really though I do find the stats thread balanced and helpful and better for my MH so maybe I'll just look at that going forward.

I'm back in shielding so MN is important for me I think. I'm very torn.

Mumsnet posted a link yesterday about how to hide whole topics : www.mumsnet.com/Talk/$canonical_url

[quote Eternia]Mumsnet posted a link yesterday about how to hide whole topics : www.mumsnet.com/Talk/$canonical_url[/quote]
It's great being able to hide whole topics but only works if the subjects stay in those topics.

Sorry link doesn't work on app but it's under "talk preferences" on the desktop site

Nah. It's an uncertain time and everyone is projecting a bit. One isn't forced to read hyperbolic threads (on both sides of the debate). Or you can just read them and maintain a critical eye. And if there are no other interesting threads of interest to read; then you can always create one. Mumsnet is a tool or resource; just like Facebook or Twitter, and what you draw from it, depends on how you use it. That doesn't mean that less time spent on social media generally, doing something like exercising, cleaning or something creative, isn't time well spent though.

I think I'm going to have to.
Or try to confine myself just to the education boards.

Yes but I keep getting sucked back in!! There are some lovely threads and it really cheers me up to look at the ones about books, TV and style and beauty. I just have to resist the temptation to scroll through the popular threads posted at the top!!!

I agree op. I come on and end up feeling more worried

So many people claim to have some form of anxiety which I feel Is sometimes and excuse for being ridiculous.

I've just looked at one three where the op is moaning that her children have nothing as we are back in Lockdown. FFS it's so dramatic.

Keep calm and carry on

@IamTomHanks

Been thinking about it for a while, but mostly because it's become a right-wing echo chamber.

^^ This

@RainingBatsAndFrogs

It would be better if ALL threads about COVID, including this one, stayed on the Corinavirus board so that people, including you OP, could avoid it!

@MNHQ can you moderate this more fiercely? Would it help?

100% agree with this

I came off Facebook months ago for the same reason.
Teeming with tin foil hat conspiracists and "Isn't he doing great?" when our useless PM hid away from the country.
I have felt so much better for switching it off.

The problem is always wanting to come back for the tv discussions, or other specific issues, and then suddenly there you are having waded onto a cv thread! (I don't count the data one as that is generally non-shouty and sticks to analysing the data - for some reason I don't find that depressing! Not sure why....)

I’d give Twitter a swerve if I was you OP ;) All social media is challenging and it’s a good thing you’ve recognised the detriment to your mental health. Good luck to you :))

I left here in March, was sick of reporting and hiding all the covid threads. In fact left all social media and even WhatsApp. Stopped reading the news. It was great for my mental health.

Decided to come back here a couple of weeks ago. It was ok, maybe still too many covid thread in the guise of AIBU, but quickly hid.

However came on today and the old mass hysteria and Pearl clutching is back. Too many to hide, so I'm off again too.

Just wish MNet HQ would be stricter about the covid threads, and we should ALL be reporting them. Getting them moved to the Covid section.

When I complained on a thread back last
March, a poster said they this was an important event and needed to be discussed, but there are PLENTY other places to discuss it, NOT AIBU on a parenting site.

You can hide whole boards I think. Might be worth hiding the Coronavirus section?

I’d love to leave but unfortunately mumsnet inevitably ends up being correct about a lot of stuff. Not everything. But it’s very useful for information which is why I’m on here.

I stopped using Facebook for this very reason and have been on MN more as I can choose what I want to read.

I don't think you are alone in feeling this way OP, I don't live in the UK but it is the same everywhere. I really haven't coped well with the negativity so just pick and choose what I want to see which is a bit easier here.

I’m so glad other people feel the same way. Lately there’s been so much hysteria and it seems a lot of posters just love a drama. Scanning active threads last night almost every single thread was some variation of government bashing, how will I cope home schooling, I can’t believe the school I’m still sending my kids to is also taking other kids

"You can hide whole boards I think. Might be worth hiding the Coronavirus section?"

But you can't hide trending topics can you? - maybe I am overstating the importance of that for most people, but it does mean you are unable to avoid seeing at least 5 corona thread titles on some occasions! And then you get drawn in.....

I do agree mn is useful for information - and there are some incredibly funny and intelligent pp.

YANBU
I’m so bored with reading all the doom and gloom and at the moment there’s not much else on MN.
As a pp said, it’s either government bashing, squabbling over who gets the vaccine first, inability to cope with children/home schooling, spying on neighbours - the moaning goes on and on.
It feels like common sense has just up and left.

I have hidden the coronavirus threads. Wasn't that easy to do but Mumsnet is a better place for me now.

Some people are thriving off the drama, a poster said today that leaving your house was a privilege not a right. I hope they live alone and are not spewing their poison onto the kids and partner.

Once the weather perks up I'll be sticking with the gardening threads. I even popped into spooners corner to get away from the doom and gloom, I wouldn't recommend it 😱

@sunshineandshowers40

I have hidden the coronavirus threads. Wasn't that easy to do but Mumsnet is a better place for me now.

If only people stuck to posting them in the Coronavirus topic... 🙄

I reports SO many to try and get them moved - fair play to MNHQ they usually do but not always.

Apart from the Covid threads and the unpopular opinions threads that are full of spite, MN is not a very cheerful place right now.

Some people are thriving off the drama

No doubt about that!
My elderly mother is one- she jumps on a bus into the city, only to cross the road and come straight back home again.
She loves all the fuss- hand gel on the bus, the sitting restrictions- joins in with worried looks- a huge day out for her.