Traumatised by the news

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This week I’ve been struggling immensely with rumination on current events.
I literally feel traumatised with the darkness of it all and will have to take a break from the news for a while to recover I think 😞
AIBU to think that news stories these days include too much detail on certain cases and it’s just not necessary, like they could easily express the weight of the story without going into such detail?
I’ve seen a few posts on here where people have expressed distress over horrible news stories and people reply with even more detail or talking about similar cases, why add to their sorrow?

Mainstream news is just “the most shocking things that happened today”.

Just grammatically, in the interests of clarity.

I was using a conditional phrasing between two propositional points, the latter as a consequence of the former:

Protasis: if one (impersonal, singular) does not find a thread of use
Apodosis: then one could be within a reasonable course of action to no longer engage with a particular thread.

No one has to do anything I tell them to do (just ask my toddler). But I maintain that my post was accurate; although the syntax was truncated for brevity, with it being a post on an internet forum.

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I remember being made to watch the news aged 10, before I started secondary school, and thinking how awful news was.

People fear switching news off in case they miss something “important” happening in the world. My view is that if something really significant happens, you willl find out about it one way or another.

One thing of many that pissed me off about 2020 was that even fiction couldn’t provide an escape. It was all about the bloody virus: it was in storylines about everything. Masks on TV all the time, socially distanced broadcasts, and if you wanted to watch YouTube, lots of masks in the adverts as well.

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Christ some people on here are arseholes aren't they?

Yes thank you I will definitely consider it. I was just hoping to connect with other people who are perhaps going through something similar and it seems there are a few! So it has been nice to feel like I’m reaching out through the void, making connections, instead of screaming into it.

Try "The Week" magazine. Keeps you up to date with UK & foreign news, including what various newspapers & news sites have said. Non-sensational. Read as much or as little as you want, and avoid the tv bulletins & news sites in the knowledge that you're not becoming ignorant. I really like it.

theweek.com/uk

I don't watch the news at all now. It really helps to just be informed about stuff happening in your own family, work and social group. I might dip into world news once a month.
It's not good for us to be hearing bad news every day, and about things that don't concern us and we can't do anything about.

Oh yeah 100%

I think this past couple of weeks news will stay with me a long time, and not in a good way.

I agree with a pp about news round/John Craven being soothing, I think I might try and completely quit the news now.

I'm wondering if that might be a good way forward. Thanks pp

Some people just don't give a stuff. And some care too much.

I do think there are too many social media outlets keen to provide additional distressing details and speculation and it can be hard to avoid them when scrolling Facebook for example. The current one is the horrific abuse and murder of Preston Davey and I find I’ve had to really cut down on my scrolling.
I think you should do the same.

It’s all the video imo.
I don’t need my young people being able to watch people being murdered. I don’t want to see people actually dying. I think watching footage of awful events actually causes problems for people’s mental health.

I gave up on reading too much of it during Covid. Some papers seemed almost gleeful to spread doom. Now I just piece my news together from memes and shitposts on Twitter. Not very grown up really but I am a lot happier. 😆 x

I think when you’ve just had kids and read about child abuse cases it does seem to hit you, more that it would have pre-kids. I try not to read the detail of these such cases now. The Daniel Pelka one hit me particularly hard as I had my first around the same time that all happened!