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Its wild to see people type “this news isnt good for my mental health”. Like ignoring the planet dying is a price well paid for personal mental wellness. I guess we are doomed as a species. Its really humbling to learn our limits to change things.

I've largely stopped actively following news because

• most of it is stuff we knew already
• I already find out all that I need to know and more involuntarily through occasional social media visits

I'd like to read summaries of a given week's news on the world, EU, national, and maybe local level once a week, tho. I'll check if there's anything like this for the world and EU scale and report back here if there is.

This is a problem I struggle with philosophically. I have lived in the US with a degree of privilege and I feel the price for that should include knowing how the proverbial sausage is made, that is, knowing all the crap that is being done to allow me to live in (meager) comfort.

It's Poor Things cranked up to eleven. The British empire is holding the beer of the American one. It's just too much.

The continual rush of news, propelled by the addictive properties of the YouTube algo, have driven me quite mad, albeit, I suffer from behavioral health problems already. I haven't found a balance to this.

I'm not sure I understand what "build healthier habits around how, when and where we get our news" exactly means and how that would help. I mean if TACO drops bombs on little kids, I can't think of how digesting this differently is going to be any healthier for me.

Title is true even without the last two words.

Switching from Reddit to Lemmy did wonders for my mental health. Less time doom scrolling, more time to engage with my hobbies

I got tired of this and started a nonprofit, it in turn attracted a following and now we spend our time doing good instead of reading doom news all the time, and it's turned my mental state around considerably.

All you need is a little bit of info about org formation and leadership, and a lot of righteous indignation about the current state of things.

And yes before anyone asks I do think almost anyone could do this or at very least join one.

Oh, great… more bad news.

Maybe if we stopped letting bad things happen, there wouldn't be so much bad news.

And the people who are in charge and doing evil things know this and are using it to their advantage.

Isn't this the thing we are doing by being on Lemmy? My mental state is better when I scroll the feed here, as opposed to scrolling reddit.

I do both still, but I'm nearing the phase where Lemmy gets more attention.

It's just fucked that I read too much so I might run out of content on Lemmy which pushes me to read the news then back to reddit untill I wake up again

I find my days to be much better overall when I don't spend a lot of time online over an extended period. I’m more productive, more creative, and less anxious. I still find out all the impactful stuff, anyway.

Its not like knowing the bad news as it happens helps me in any way, genuinely, so why bother wasting all my bandwidth on it?

My dumb monkey brain is meant to tell five kinds of poisonous berries from the one edible kind. What does it do with an international pedophile ring, climate collapse, and rising inequality? Shuts down is what it does.

Your brain wasn't designed at all.

I am painfully aware.

In Soviet Russia, observing an event changes your outcomes.

Don’t tell me that then, you’re just making it worse.

“Healthier habits?” They can’t even do that for going to bed because they’re doomscrolling/texting in bed.