In our latest chat on mental health and wellbeing, we give you some thoughts on the news cycle and protecting your headspace.
Hello and welcome to part of our website. This is a series of weekly articles where we chat about things that can affect you and the people around you. Every article is for everyone I know it won’t help you, but I hope you find something useful in the catalog as I write the article.
This time, we’re gliding around what we’ve seen before. That’s basically the state of the world. It is not surprising to suggest that the past decade has been particularly divisive in politics. The number of news stories that put a smile on our face is easily smaller than the number that doesn’t. When it comes to everyday mental health, it’s completely useless.
I don’t want to get into some of last week’s raunchy headlines, but the truth is, whenever this article ran, there should have been another batch we could have talked about.
Of course, the problem with the news media in the past is that it’s now very clickbait-driven and sells sensations (or stories about Prince Harry). Sure, it’s always been that way, but money is cut off from news coverage, and there’s little obvious reason to write some of the opinions, personalities, and BLOCK CAPITALS headlines.
The companies behind such news outlets are finding as many ways as they can to catch our eye too. However, there are many obstacles that try to prevent it. Block button is useful.
Yet the cumulative effect of all this is helplessness. How can one person influence the injustice inflicted on us and the feeling that the bully always wins?
Well, we really can’t.
And that’s the rub. In some cases, there are organizations you can donate to or support, or protests you can join. But basing our lives on daily news articles is not a healthy place to be. It was my routine to wake up and check the newspaper headlines. Not now, and my day is a little better with it. I’m not completely avoiding the news, but I’m very careful. It feels like all I can do.
There’s no radical solution here, but at least acknowledge that staying away from the disastrous taps being directed in our direction by such outlets isn’t a bad thing.
As always, thanks for reading. See you next week in this column…
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