To be totally fatigued by all the bad news and changes from the last few years

[nellytheelephant1980]

It's just never-ending isn't it? I feel a constant sense of impending doom. Nothing seems stable, I dread looking at the news to hear of more horrendous things coming our way - lockdowns, fuel prices, energy prices, interest rate raises so higher mortgages, the Ukraine war and Russia's threats.

I am so fatigued by it all. I want 2019 back.

Anyone else??

Sometimes I feel like I've felt negative for so long it's become my default

I think how the news is presented has changed as well which makes things worse.
When I was young we watched the news once a day and they presented the facts e.g Putin has invaded, X town has been bombed.
Now it’s 24 hours a day so you can’t escape it and it’s always totally over the top. Eg it appears if you read the news now we will all be dead from starvation this time next year.
It can’t actually be good for anyone’s mental state so I would suggest if possible avoiding it if you can.

On a recent holiday the quietness of zero radio or any media was so zen I think what we experience via the U.K. media is affecting us negatively. Not just what is happening but how it is delivered - constant, grabbing attention, negative

Someone said we had a brutal news cycle recently. I agree. Also if it is affecting your mh disengage especially if it’s passed on to dc

I "stated my new life" in October 2019, my divorce came through, I moved to another county far away and had all kinds of plans as most of my friends live in this new county and I spent a lot of time there, I got a fantastic new NHS job and then BAM all this shit started.
But I feel like I've been made stronger because of it and my friendships are much closer as a result. I got experiences at work I'd never have had before so it's been ok.
But then I was lucky, I've never had covid or long covid and haven't lost my job or anything because of it.

I hear you 🙌

I no longer read newspapers or magazines. I've not watched tv in years let alone the news. The media in my opinion spread panic & fear.

I'd rather plod along in my own world happily 👌

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The "man with full belly, many problems; man with empty belly- only one problem" thing is pretty true. You can kind of replicate this by going for a run or a swim or digging the garden. Go as hard as you can for as long as you can, rest for a minute then go again. Repeat till your lungs and legs are burning. Pretty soon you'll forget about Putin, energy prices, the NHS, whether your kids will end up in some sort of Hunger Games / Dune death scramble for the last remaining clean water in 30 years time, the fact that Ecclesiastes Chapter 1 says it's all a pointless waste of time.

All you will think about will be stopping. Then stop. And be a little bit happier for a while.

I don't watch the news or do much except skim thru newspapers ( mostly read only the culture section). I am still miserable at the moment. Covid has had a very hard impact on our family, plus our jobs are wobbly, mortgage has gone up.... etc etc. I laugh when I look back at 2019 and all the plans I had for the family back then. Boy, was I naive!

Yep. One hundred percent agree. My sister passed away nearly a year ago and obviously all the other things you list OP. It's just relentless and exhausting.

I’m getting I don’t care anymore I can’t be bothered when (if it goes well moving ) I won’t bother with news what’s the point ? Doom and gloom a dreadful winter ahead of us. No I’m done with this country. All political people are liars hypocrites doesn’t matter what party, the gestapo dwp on your back. If working people crap hours low wages.

Certainly a strange sort of numbness is setting in now. My sister has had some very bad news lately, and when she told me, I couldn't even muster up the right level of support because I was thinking " Not this again!". I feel emotionally burnt out. Also peri-menopausal so no caring hormones left.

Pretty much everything since 2015/16 has been a fucking nightmare. I've given up radio because I can't take the relentless catastrophic news every damn hour.

And now Putin's threatening nuclear war.

Like others have said, its not new to have such a relentless barrage of bad news but in the past, it was confined to newspapers and news reports at 1pm 6pm and 10pm and you could avoid it by not watching the TV or not buying a paper! nowadays, thanks to technology, its all around us 24/7 and its MUCH harder to avoid.

It is totally possible to avoid the relentless barrage of bad news though. I do it. I don't listen to the radio, I use spotify instead and listen to music I choose, god knows when I last bought a paper. I don't watch the news on the television, or scroll through facebook or twitter. It is doable, I've done this for the past 20 or so years when I moved back to the UK from overseas, and it works for me.

We are not designed to withstand this onslaught of doom, only what's going on in your immediate "village". Opt out if it's getting you down.

I think life is good at the moment compared to previous times. I have a house, good food, entertainment via a television and games with the kids, a park nearby to walk the dog.
I'm living in a time where I'm not called racist names and I'm free.
It depends on how you look at things I suppose. Oh and don't watch the news!

The media have become addicted to catastrophic news 24/7. That’s a lot of time to fill.

We were taking bets on what the next big terror would be while watching the funeral. Hey presto, within a couple of days we have nuclear war to worry about!

Yep, this is what it feels like 😞

This it's such a timely thread. I was thinking only today, for the first time ever, how I feel quite sad and deflated and that's just not like me. It's just the constant one thing after another. It sounds silly because I'm not a rampant monarchist, but for me I wonder if the Queen's death was a catalyst –another big change.

I've waited nearly a year for a consultant's appointment and was in and out in about 10 minutes, very unsatisfactory. I've waited two weeks for a telephone doctor's appointment tomorrow which I think will be equally unsatisfactory. It's as if everything I took for granted is just crap at the moment. Even the high street is half empty and miserable, so no retail therapy, even if I wasn't trying to watch the pennies.