I feel quite traumatised after reading the news, (dont laugh at me lol), so I stopped reading it for awhile. I was so much more happier. But started reading it again.
What do you do?
Consume the news with an open mind or shut it all out by not reading it?
Can't help but notice you still do social media? If somebody doesn't like coffee you shouldn't force them to drink it. So I don't see not watching the news a big deal. What would you be missing out on that you really need to get out of it. I go thru periods where I do not watch the news, and often times when I do some of the things upset me, while other things I have no interest in at all. Is it an anxiety issue like if you do not watch it you feel like you are missing something? And when you do watch it your anxiety goes way up? That could make things a little more complicated. For the most part humans are very selfish, it's all about them. The news wants to feed into you to make you become apart of the events to keep you coming back. Kind of like being in a group known as society. They make you want to care about things that really do not or shouldn't affect you.
A building collapsed and probably killed 150 people. If my house collapsed and killed me it may, or may not make the local news. Does this mean I am less important then those 150 people? There are many reasons I do not live in a high rise apartment on the ocean in Miami, but should I feel the families loss? I did not build the building, or have anything to do with the collapse. I am not religious so I will not be praying to God that they find some people alive. At what point is the media supporting ambulance chasers? At what point do they show compassion? At what point do they just report cold, hard, facts? And how different people respond to things can be a big factor too. In many ways people should learn to MYOB, while in others the story may touch someone who can change something so this doesn't happen again, or they may be able to help in some way with the current situation. It reminded me of when a major bridge fell in the the river locally a number of years ago. It places a time stamp in our lives so maybe it really does affect us in ways we are not aware of?