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 ❤️
Someone else in this thread said they spent 8 hours a day on their phone when Russia/Ukraine started.
I stay tuned into the news here and check it periodically but if it’s hurting your mental health, there’s absolutely no reason to be glued into the war minutiae. You don’t need hourly updates on which bombs landed where to be informed. You don’t need a constant feed of gore to know that Israel is genocidal pariah state and to do whatever you can from thousands of miles away.