It’s enough now I’ve got to stop watching the news…

I was ill a little over 5 years ago. A breakdown caused by stress. I can't really remember the first 18 months after but as I was starting to get a bit better I made a conscious choice not to hear/see news for a whole year. I'd heard an article on radio 4 about a lady doing this. It helped her and it helped me. It was quite hard with a newspaper reading/news addict partner, but I think I did it.
I listen to radio 4 mostly, but use the news as a reminder to to a chore if I'm daydreaming so I don't listen. But I do enjoy a good chuckle at the weather forecasts X
Good luck and carry on with your mindfulness ❤️

I'm starting to avoid the news. I used to like keeping up with all the politics. But recently I'm having issues with the presenters. They seem to make everything worse. It's the breathy almost in tears that's really annoying me. BBC seems particularly bad.

DH watches the news and I pay vague attention to the headlines and choose to watch any items that interest me but I was advised recently to avoid paying attention as it just makes my depression and anxiety worse.

There’s a lot to be said for….... Ignorance is bliss!

I’m living in the US. When Trump was President I watched all the news and was up to the minute on every bit of news. The things happening really frightened me! After several years of the craziness I chose to tune out when I realised it was causing anxiety. I’ve been away from news for a few years and I feel much better.

Well I’ve done it, one whole day avoiding the news except for this morning when the headline came up on my phone although I had deleted the news apps. I am very proud of myself ?

If only my husband would stop listening and informing me.
I don't want to know!

I subscribe online to Reuters - costs nothing, they send daily news summaries, you can choose what you receive information about, read the brief summaries and read the rest if and when you want or ignore it all if there is nothing happening that you want to know about.

Newspapers rely so much on their editorial slant. Its hard to know which to trust for truthful comment.

We only buy the weekend papers now for the crosswords and sudokus. It takes all of 10 minutes to read the rest. Plus it costs $5- ridiculous price.

I’m another who scans the news so I know the main items.
It’s not that I don’t care but mostly I can’t do anything about all the things that are going on.

I didn't watch the Funeral on Monday. I used the time constructively to put up a shelf. Very satisfying!

If you want to stay in the loop without feeling swamped, then I highly recommend subscribing to one or two newsletters from your papers of choice - you don’t have to pay, you can get daily or weekly digests and to an extent you can choose what you get updated on. So if you just want UK news, you can get a newsletter for that, or if it’s environmental stories you want, or culture - it’s like a hand-picked mini newspaper!

I'm toying with cancelling the daily newspaper but can't quite do it. I've largely given up on the 6 o'clock news for all the resons stated above. But...

A good way of filtering Norah.

MawtheMerrier

The illogicality and injustice of the media gets to me though.
Appalling tragedies hit the headlines, we recoil in horror or reach for our cards to donate for disaster relief, then the next day a Cabinet minister is caught having a bit of rumpy pumpy and the flood or earthquake victims are consigned to the inner pages as if their plight is somehow sorted. Or forgotten.

Quite right.

I watch/ listen to the minimum and read the rest. Reading, to me, is less invasive way of learning distressing news.

The illogicality and injustice of the media gets to me though.
Appalling tragedies hit the headlines, we recoil in horror or reach for our cards to donate for disaster relief, then the next day a Cabinet minister is caught having a bit of rumpy pumpy and the flood or earthquake victims are consigned to the inner pages as if their plight is somehow sorted. Or forgotten.

I think it’s important to know what’s going on in the world but you have to accept there are things happening over which you have no control. Worrying about things totally outside your sphere of influence is a waste of life. Scroll on by.

Although I deleted all my news apps when I woke up this morning there was a headline about Putin threatening the West on my phone ?‍♀️

Haven't watched TV news for years. I read up on the web. I like to look at lots of sources, and if it's science news I like to look at the original journals where I can rather than reading pop science. The only time TV news is of any benefit is if something is actually breaking news and you want to keep up it, like the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, tropical storms, wildfires in the US or Australia - once it's ongoing you can catch up as and when you want to.

Luckygirl3

I am tempted to join you in the sand.....

Please do….

The doom and gloom, feeling of helplessness is just compounded when charity adverts appear asking for help for starving children, abused animals, health funding, etc., etc., etc. We can help everyone but are left feeling guilty when we don’t/can’t .

I am tempted to join you in the sand.....

I made this decision back before the US 2016 election. I almost got sucked back in March 2020. It took about a week for me to turn it off.

Now I get top level info and them research more from reliable sources.