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    1 year ago

    Do you watch a lot of reels / consume short media? Like the other commenter said, we aren’t made to process so much information so quickly. Definitely try some apps that help with black out or ween off insta / twitter completely for a bit

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      1 year ago

      Not really actually. It’s more how it’s intruding in concrete ways and preying on my mind.

      ie Being affected by the cost of living, especially food. Substandard and unaffordable housing. Antisocial behaviour in my neighbourhood rising. Fretting about actions that aren’t eco friendly - then remembering it’s pointless because renewables are being used as a political football and our plastics aren’t even being recycled. Knowing that as temperatures slowly rise my cheaply built flat will become intolerable.

      But seeing stuff reflected in the news (ie. around housing climate and food, like it really is that bad) doesn’t help. The Gaza news is also harrowing.