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

I love the news. I read the newspapers first thing in bed and listen to the tv news for most of the day when I'm at home. I've just been watching the briefing in Parliament about Ukraine whilst having my lunch and found it fascinating. Each to their own.

I turned off all the news about Covid (had all jabs) but now turning all news off about Putin, to keep my sanity.

I’m am watching every move of that murderer Putin. I want to be there at his downfall. Let us hope that could be soon. ?

I can quite understand why people watch little news or avoid it as much as possible. I listen to some on the radio in the morning and half hour in the evening.
It does seem to some that its burying your head in the sand but feel it’s important to put a limit on it.
I lived with someone who watched mainly just news!
At the end of the day it’s good to be informed but often there is nothing you can do to change a situation.
I try now to focus on some comedy, quizzes and yes I admit soaps( may be crazy but at least it’s not real life!

I’m not sure if it was T.S. Eliot and I can’t remember the exact quote, but he wrote about couples settling down to listen to the world’s disasters in the evening in the comfort of their cosy homes. An element of schadenfreude obviously.
My MIL every evening, after supper would always say
“Is there a news?” gleefully and of course there was. All the awful things in the world gathered together.
No wonder it can be unhealthy to have too much of it.

Second day with no news. I have to say it feels good not to have current world situations going around in my head and preventing me from sleeping…?

But if I didn't keep an eye on the news then I'd be worrying that something really important had happened and I knew nothing about it! I have to keep an eye on the news, but not a detailed look.

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But if I didn't keep an eye on the news then I'd be worrying that something really important had happened and I knew nothing about it! I have to keep an eye on the news, but not a detailed look.

Each to their own.. I know that the current news is really affecting my mental health so I choose not to engage with it at all..

#meanall! I've become a telly addict slowly but surely over last say-30 years? I never ever watched news up to my late 30s ish, but a period living alone meant my TV was my only companion through some extremely dark episodes and it's stuck! I agree about"news" I'm sick and tired of watching while upto 8!!! Journos give us their'opinion' on what's just been reported.....why? I sometimes feel as if I'm tooting in on a private conversation between them , half the time they don't even look towards the camera - and the (great unwashed) audience!!?

I fazed out completely during the nightly blurb during COVID! Btw, has anyone seen our "briefing room" lately? Maybe it's been nicked?! Or maybe it's sitting there....filthy...unused....smelly....because ALL the announcements recently from new leaderene being elected to HRH demise were made.....from tarmac in middle of the road outside #10! We told them they'd never use it, but oh no! Doris HAD to pretend was the president............. Can we have our money back?

Shinamae, I stopped watching MSM, news programmes or reading newspapers a couple of years ago, during covid. Believe me, it is the best thing you have done. My stress levels went down by about 90% almost immediately. If I want to see if anything has changed, I do a quick check on BBC website (not the best place to go) and then get on with my life. One thing is certain, MSM only knows how to tell lies.

My only warning would be NOT to restrict your news to the Daily Mail which is dependant on presenting its own self serving political agenda. Wikipedia does not classify this paper as a news paper as it only contains 30% of truth unlike others which give us 60% !!!! When fed up with news it is only too easy to skim headlines and make decisions of a political nature based on unreliable headlines and easy to skim reports.

I had to stop watching the news when Covid first appeared on the horizon. Out of sheer fear because it was the unknown until I read up about it. It was depressing and making me anxious which is unlike me but I got used to it and it became a way of life.

I could have written your post Redhead56.