If possible at all, of course.
A ridiculous amount of copeing mechanisms and my supportive close family and friends where we keep eachother sane. Growing up in all this bullshit, you get used tovit somewhat.
How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news?
Submitted 1 day ago by nikoo@sh.itjust.works to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 18 minutes ago
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 47 minutes ago
Alcohol
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
Are those who are well adjusted to a unjust world really the sane ones?
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 1 day ago
DoubleDongle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It helps a lot that the assholes are not doing well. The Epstein thing has made it easier to breathe.
Going to protests helps too. The energy of the crowd really feels good and assures me that the people are on my side.
KeenFlame@feddit.nu 5 hours ago
You do something, anything, about the shit you disagree with. Usa stops famine support? Fuck you, Unicef is not going to die on my watch. Etc.
ef9357@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I’ve figured that I can either be informed or happy. Not both.
lordnikon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
its all about setting your boundaries being able to say thats enough for today. being able to ask yourself if what you are listening to is new facts being relayed to you or is it speculation to fill air and stop listening if it’s the latter.
AngryRobot@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
The news is primarily billionaire propaganda. It does not add value to your life. When it’s important you’ll hear about it, and then you can read up. You don’t have to be the first to know. Nothing bad will happen to you for being less informed.
turtlesareneat@discuss.online 11 hours ago
Good news readers can help you get lots of the content you want with only a quick passing glance at the headlines so you can still carry a conversation/contemplate the inescapability of this planet
antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
If somebody talks about world news or politics, I’d rather drop the conversation. Willful ignorance is about maintaining a good state of mind, and that includes not talking to some people about such topics.
naught101@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Activism, contributing to your community, making the world a better place. The crazy-making part is that you know it’s crap, and that you feel like you have no agency to make it better, right? Well, doing something to make the world better makes it feel more tolerable, even if the bit that you’re working on isn’t related to the specific badness that you’re paying attention to on the news right now.
And yeah, there’s always the possibility that what you’re doing backfires, or has no effect, but if you don’t do anything at all, then there’s no possibility of having a good effect. Also, obviously no one normal person can fix everything, you just pick a bit that seems suited for you and work on that.
garbagebagel@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Second the hell out of this. It can take a lot out of you emotionally, and you need to take breaks, but I feel so much better when I’m among others who are also working to make positive change.
Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
I have a large broken chest freezer I climb into, I shut the lid and scream
Wolf@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
That’s my secret Cap.
I’ve always been insane! 🤪
csverdad@midwest.social 23 hours ago
I try to read an equal amount of theory and history as I do news. Context is everything. When you read about these bastards doing evil deeds, read too about Mussolini hanging from a bridge. I enjoy learning about coups perpetrated by the CIA last century (there’s 70 of them) and all the horrendous fallout it caused so that I can taunt nationalists with facts about the nature of the empire that they’re only just now recognizing.
News is only a part of the process. Theory, praxis, cadre, in equal parts.
mia@feddit.org 20 hours ago
You don’t.
I read news once a week and this is it
sixtoe@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I’m not. Homeless, trans, old, disabled. I am the fuckin news. I take my meds and do my best to keep an even keel but sanity is long gone. LOL @ DOOMSCROLLING wtf eat good and enjoy your pillow and hug your friends if you still got any. its not your fault. i love you. be safe everybody.
darthelmet@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
That’s the neat part. I don’t. I’m depressed as fuck.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
I was depressed before I kept up on current and past events.
YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
And how does keeping up with current world events help you in that situation?
If something like 911 happens again you’d find out anyway, just an hour later that you would now.
I’m not being paid to care about all that benign bullshit so I don’t anymore
darthelmet@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Because I don’t think sticking my head in the sand is good either. Besides, it’s not just abstract far away things that are bothering me. A lot of what depresses me in my personal life is connected to the broader problems we face as a society. I kind of can’t ignore that if I want to make sense of my own life. That doesn’t stop it from feeling hopeless, but the alternative isn’t really an option even if I didn’t care about others.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I ignore the news, because I’m probably dying withing a few years, so I’m just chillin’ and enjoying whatever’s left.
Don’t need to make depression worse, I’m not a politician, I can’t change anything.
I’m not a cis white dude (I’m Chinese-American), its not my fight. Like what am I supposed to do? Protest, get a lot of attention from the government, and then get labeled a “CCP Spy” get set to some gulag. Then they’ll raid Chinatown and pillage everything. Then some of the first-gen inmigrants are gonna go on wechat and blame me for “stirring the pot”. I mean, can you imagine if Thomas Matthew Crooks was a gay black guy? It would’ve been so much worse. So much scapegoating. If I do anything, they’ll just scapegoat everyone that looks like me.
So good luck y’all, my health is deteriorating, don’t have the brain energy to take action, and I’ve already accepted death, literally hurts my brain to think.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Because there’s always a possible path out of the forest…
Sometimes the path gets dark, sometimes it changes directions.
But there’s always a path thru it.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Sometimes you need an up-armored Komatsu D355A to cut that path through the forest.
don@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Oh yeah, the Heemeyer variant model. Solid choice. Really solid choice.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That tracks
antihumanitarian@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I find old Stoic philosophy helpful. If I can’t do anything about it, I stay informed but try to be mindful of my limitations. If I can do anything about it, even if not much, if I’m worried about the thing I use that to do what I can.
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 23 hours ago
This is exactly the problem and how we go into this mess in the first place. When we read terrible things are happening, instead of getting mad and doing something we choose to ignore it and pretend it’s not happening. That allows the terrible people to keep doing whatever they want.
Sure, it’s easier to ignore it now for your mental health, but when things get even worse, you’ll be worse off too. It’s worth some stress and pain now to prevent even more in the future.
If you don’t like what you read in the news, organize and take action. Don’t bury your head in the sand. It won’t get better on its own.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 day ago
Nihilism. Everything is terrible and there’s nothing you can do about it. Take care of yourself, enjoy what you can while you still can and don’t have kids.
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 hours ago
I realised long ago that the human brain is not capable of handling everything that’s happening all around the world, all the time. I’m selective about what media I consume and I make extensive use of blocklists for things that aren’t my fight.
drmoose@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Slow news. Literally nothing is “breaking” these days unless you’re juggling stocks and you dont really need to know news as soon as possible.
Check out www.slow-journalism.com
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
That’s a great idea, but quarterly bews is a bit too slow for my taste. Right now I’m mostly getting by on the sunday summaries.
1D10@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m not sane I take my meds I only pay attention to non sensational news (Reuters,NPR,AP) I spend time with loved ones I have no interest in associating with conservatives.
muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 1 day ago
Realise u have no control over 99.999% of it and remember their is no point worrying about shit u can’t control.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 1 day ago
Yes
HubertManne@piefed.social 1 day ago
One day at a time and knowing that at some point I will no longer exist.
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
It’s tough. Stick to AP, Reuters if you can afford it. The entire news environment is pretty crazy right now though. I think once the US gets through Trump the rest of the world might calm down some and we can all relax a little bit.
HubertManne@piefed.social 1 day ago
Thing is I look at start of obama to end and how long it takes to get back to where we could be and at this point it takes much longer than how long things were degrading. Biden did a crazy amount of stuff in his term and it still did not get through what trump messed up in his first term. Then take the lighning fast pace of destruction with all the federal agencies. Getting those to where they were is not going to be easy. So muhc lost institutional knowledge. Unless the right loses so much support it becomes completely inconsequential and we have a decade or more of relatively sensible policies I just don't see a relaxation point.
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Yes, 100%
But we have to get through it or the biggest power left in the world becomes a shithole country. We can’t get him out and just have to endure.
I’ll be here after Trump and I hope you are too.
lemmyknow@lemmy.today 12 minutes ago
My news comes mainly from Lemmy, Wikipedia, sometimes Wikinews, maybe other people, and short daily podcasts. The fun radio podcasts are currently on break (though they’re less ‘news’, more current topics made funny), but I sometimes also listen to a short daily news podcast.
Lemmy is by far the worst source, because 'Murican-centrism. So much US spam. If I could easily filter out the US off Lemmy, I’d do it in a jiffy. I’d even be willing to cut off English entirely. Or leave Lemmy, touch grass. The latter seems to be the most likely option, from what I know of Lemmy.
With Wikipedia, and Wikinews, I append a relevant language code to the url, like xx.wikipedia.org, and get stuff in my language, less 'Murican. I sometimes do that in other languages I know (including English).
Podcasts are relevant by location and/or language, depending on the podcast (they sometimes bring up US stuff, but that’s far less annoying than Lemmy’s spam, and sometimes actually relevant (for the news one, at least))