To think that NEWS RELATED items should stay in NEWS and not in AIBU - I block news, I cannot deal with reading about child neglect before bedtime

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I am not able to sleep if I see such things, I cant take diazepam when my dh is away as I am scared something should happen to my kids and I wont wake up or something.

I have this problem about children dying, and I cannot cope with big blown up tabloid stories of neglect and abuse.

SO so sorry.

I block news for this reason.

I guess I should just start blocking aibu too, or just not be here in the evenings.

And for the record, I am probably unreasonable.

No yanbu. It is perfectly ok to try to avoid certain subjects if they upset you so much. It doesn't make you uncaring or unreasonable.

I´m with you...I just don´t go onto those threads

yaNbu

they should stay in the bloody news, this is precisely the reason mnhq gave us the option to block whole topics in the first place. it was the madeline mccann case that brought it to a head.

i reported one the opther day and it was deleted - because it was in chat and i didn't feel it was appropriate.

most of us are parents ourselves - nothing worse to read before bed!

Thanks. I am glad (in a weird way ) to not be alone in thinking this.

It is, in a way, like sensationalizing it more than it has to.

I have just reported it, and asked for it to be moved.

Colditz, thank you for reporting that thread in chat, really upset me and only harpsi's reply made things ok.

I was typing a reply along the lines of wtf is this in chat without explicit warning attached when thread went poooof

Thanks Bree. I did too.

Sorry this has distressed you. I can understand why. You would like the AIBU threads to be about trivia for mnet lives and not about tragic real life news. I should be more sensitive as I posted on the thread.

Yes please, Abouteve, because we have a topic for real tragic news already. We are human beings with free will over what we choose to expose our minds to before we go to bed - but that free will is breached when people break netiquette and shove things under your nose that you had chosen not to look at.

Much like people shoving pictures of neglected children at you after you have chosen not to look at them.

Applauds Colditz.........

Very well said Colditz.

yanbu

Smug, I hope that they get it sorted out and I do smypathise. I cried when I read the article today and was only reminded on the thread later. I sound unsympathetic but I am on your side. .

i agree I find people send these things to me on facebook and i cant cope with it. I wish I hadn't seen the thread either as I cant deal with the weight of the world before bed esspecially when its thats sort of thing. Hope you manage to have an ok night.

I have been reading some lovely toddler threads, wich are suitably sugary and full of adoration, will go to bed fealing a little better.

Go and read about my son talking and berating Piddle.