I have been telling friends and family that they need to focus on things close to home and not worry or get all red in the face about stuff they see on the internet and "News". That they need to compartmentalize that stuff and keep in context.
I learned this lesson back around the early 80s. When I got off work I'd stop and grab some food and then go home and watch the "News". The station I watched started off with local Los Angeles and State news for a 1/2 hour, then a 1/2 hour of National News, then another of World News.
The station was a predecessor to "FOX News" and was purchased by FOX just a few years later. They focused almost entirely on negative news, car crashes, murders, rapes, robberies, etc. So by the end of 1.5 hours I had consumed most all the major tragedies for the entire planet, and I was depressed AF.
I finally realized that it was consuming all that "bad news" was the cause of that because days when I didn't consume it I felt fine.
That was just 1.5 hours a day, 5 days a week, of my routine back then.
Nowadays I would offer you need to put your phone down and spend more time doing something you can learn from and enjoy, like friends and family, like people did before the internets.
I learned this lesson back around the early 80s. When I got off work I'd stop and grab some food and then go home and watch the "News". The station I watched started off with local Los Angeles and State news for a 1/2 hour, then a 1/2 hour of National News, then another of World News.
The station was a predecessor to "FOX News" and was purchased by FOX just a few years later. They focused almost entirely on negative news, car crashes, murders, rapes, robberies, etc. So by the end of 1.5 hours I had consumed most all the major tragedies for the entire planet, and I was depressed AF.
I finally realized that it was consuming all that "bad news" was the cause of that because days when I didn't consume it I felt fine.
That was just 1.5 hours a day, 5 days a week, of my routine back then.
Nowadays I would offer you need to put your phone down and spend more time doing something you can learn from and enjoy, like friends and family, like people did before the internets.