If possible at all, of course.
Take breaks.
How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news?
Submitted 1 month ago by nikoo@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I have hope that enough of the people who voted for Trump now see they were duped and that the mid-terms will be a rout for the Rs. Not a lot of hope, but hope.
However, I don’t want to think too hard about what they will try to do if that comes to pass.
Perspectivist@feddit.uk 1 month ago
I have next to zero urge to “keep up with the news.” I’m under no obligation to know what’s going on in the world at all times. If something is important, I’ll hear about it from somewhere anyway - and if I don’t hear about it, it probably wasn’t that important to begin with.
I’d argue the “optimal” amount of news is whatever’s left after you actively take steps to avoid most of it. Unfiltered news consumption in today’s environment is almost certainly way, way too much.
AA5B@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This too shall pass. I take comfort that the pendulum of politics has always swung back and forth. This moment of insanity should swing back to rebuilding, and progressive changes.
When I was in college, we had “the midnight scream”. During finals, entire dorms would open their windows at midnight and just scream. It was very effective at venting frustration, allowing us all to refocus on studying. Perhaps that’s what’s happening now: we’re all just screaming in frustration.
Hikermick@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Scan headlines but only read what affects me. These days we hear about all the awful things that happen around the word but our ability to do something about them is still the same as a hundred years ago
aceshigh@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m not sure you can. I think boundary setting is important and also contributing to causes you care about. It’s the difference between things you can control and things you can’t, and letting go of the things you can’t control.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
A ridiculous amount of copeing mechanisms and my supportive close family and friends where we keep eachother sane. Growing up in all this bullshit, you get used tovit somewhat.
roserose56@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I use RSS for sports and tech news, and read once per day for couple minutes headlines. For Lemmy and mastodon, I had to block communities and words because too much USA news.
jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I can intelligently read/listen to only as much crappy stuff as my mindfulness can extract nutrients from and shit out. I take active internal notes on the ratio of helpful nutrients to amount of shit produced, even for sources that are usually good.
There are many evil billionaire-employed full-time professional liars trying to make me stupid enough to believe that being pissed off is the same as being informed. It isn’t, and fortunately once you catch the gross corporate overlord fear stench they leave in you as they talk, you can internally identify them every time. If they make you more likely to hate and distrust, they are acting in service of bad shit in that moment.
Tonava@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I went insane already in the early 2000s, when I realised nobody gave a shit about climate change and ecological destruction and nothing I could say or do made people understand or care. I had a good chuckle when the whole Greta-thing happened and suddenly more people cared, even though we’ve known this is happening for decades now. Too little, too late. There’s always war and genocide going, now we just know it’s happening in real time. Knowing changes nothing, we don’t learn from history, too few care and those who do get in power too rarely for any lasting change to happen.
I was about to kill myself for the first time in 2013 and honestly I should just have done it, it’s the decision I now regret the most in my life. I already died that day anyway, I have just been sort of lingering remnant after that, barely a person anymore. At least my parents could have had a decade to grieve me, now I’ve just dragged more people to care about me and will hurt them as well with my death. My suffering has just gotten worse and worse together with my physical and mental health; sometimes thing not only don’t get better, but just get worse. I don’t even know how I’m still here, probably just out of spite and lack of access to handguns. Eventually I’ll get to see what will manage to end me first, my body or my mind, I don’t even know which one is leading the race.
To conclude my insane and personal rant: not everyone can get a happy ending. Enjoy and do good if you still can
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Be aware of your personal bubble. If there’s anything important enough to be an issue, you’ll hear about/read about or see it.
starlinguk@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This is absolute bullshit. People know WAY too little. Not too much. Which is why they vote for people who will destroy the world.
Pringles@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
By looking at it from a larger perspective. You can always get worked up about things but if you zoom out, you see that most of it is just a temporary trend. Some things trend well, some trend poorly, but these tend to be blips in the span of a lifetime.
Especially when comparing with the past you will see that things really aren’t all that bad in general.
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
That’s a great way to look at it if you’re coming from a place of privilege where it doesn’t affect you directly. The Palestinians don’t get to say “it’s just a trend”. It’s not just a trend for the immigrants being rounded up in concentration camps. Or for the homeless and mentally ill Trump has just declared will also be rounded up. And for the LGBTQ who are soon to follow.
And the destruction of the environment we all rely on to survive isn’t “just a trend”.
You’re only able to have the luxury of thinking it’s a trend because it hasn’t affected you. Yet.
Pringles@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Ok, sure. I do want to point out that I simply answered the question. I don’t deny my state of luxury yet also don’t feel that this bout of whataboutism is entirely warranted.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
what do you really need to be up to date with these days? you’re gonna find out about really major changes anyways, just focus on the local things that you have even the slightest chance of maybe potentially slightly influencing.
shit’s fucked, shit sucks, we all know that, we don’t need to constantly remind ourselves that shit’s fucked, instead just do whatever you can to make the world a better place. And that starts with making sure you’re as mentally healthy as possible, which does not include making yourself feel awful.
ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
For me it’s just the knowledge that I have around 100 total years on this planet and a limited amount of reach in terms of geography, relationships, etc.
I can’t swing an election by myself, but with me and millions of my closest friends we can. But only if we all pull together. It’s like a paradox but not quite.
zeca@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Get into taking news slowly. Maybe set one day in the week for you to catch up on what happened a bit. And resist the urge to go checking for news constantly. Getting news from social media make it seem like a lot is going on all the time, but its mostly a lot of noise and many rehashings of the same “news” (especially if you get them through memes in social networks). Getting news on sunday is cool because you let matters cool down a bit and people have had the time to express what has happened better.
m3t00@lemmy.world 1 month ago
news - disinformation bureau. might read headlines. can’t watch national news with daily disasters
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Reading the Revelation to St John
dastanktal@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Don’t watch mainstream media and get some of your news from independent sources, like Ken Klippenstein. I get most of my news from AP News and then from the Politics section in Lemmy.
bitchkat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I bought a camper van that is useful to focus on when I need a break. Lots of projects to work on and then actual trips.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I mostly don’t do either.
Tedesche@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s a balancing act. You have to learn how to gauge when you’re getting overly-stressed/depressed by news consumption and stop doing it. Limit yourself to engaging with it in short bursts, so you can keep up with the general knowledge of what’s happening, while not getting bogged down in the details.
Etterra@discuss.online 1 month ago
Define “sane.”
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Focus on what you can change. Try not to let what you can’t bring you down too much.