With the escalation in Gaza and West Bank on top of the incident I’m going to limit how much I spend on telegram, lemmy, etc. because I can get massively hyperfocussed on this shit. Feels a lot like when the Ukraine Russia war heated up and I was stuck to my phone 8 hours a day.

I’m lucky enough to have started my meds recently which are absolutely eviscerating my anxiety, but others aren’t so lucky.

Maybe delete a couple of apps and limit your exposure for a couple of days so even if you DO doomscroll it’s less paralysing.

The new world struggles to be born ❤️

  • homhom9000 [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    13·
    3 days ago

    It’s so hard. I tell myself consuming won’t change anything but if I look away things are changing without me knowing. Politics is one of my main interest.

    • SovietBeerTruckOperator [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      8·
      3 days ago

      I do think part of this habit is some of us do genuinely enjoy following events and staying informed. I really don’t think mentally it’s all that different than following a TV show or whatever, just with the anxiety that what’s happening on the screen could end up in your backyard.

    • merthyr1831@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      Agreed. I don’t think its about necessarily ignoring or permanently unplugging, but for example using RSS feeds to get news in a more structured manner, or temporarily uninstalling apps and reinstalling later to catch up on things.

      Like, I’m super interested in this stuff too, but also I don’t need to know the up to the minute headlines on what is happening on the front lines of Ukraine, or the minute by minute preparations of Iranian ballistic missile bases. But having those apps on my phone during these specific times makes it likely that I’ll be refreshing constantly.

      In the end it’s not about un-informing ourselves but accepting that a small delay in that information will do our souls some benefit.