Information overload

[MyNameIsTerry]

You can live without it but I think with anxiety you always have to be mindful of whether you are avoiding it out of fear or using an adaptive strategy. The latter is part of recovery strategy. The former is discouraged since it just leaves irrational fear in your subconscious.

I dealt with it reading plenty of articles in the newspapers every time I went into a supermarket. That, along with other work on my anxiety, meant I no longer found myself triggered.

But the challenges differ if you are on the spectrum, which I seem to recall you are, so the above may be less relevant to you.

[NoraB]

Ronco was a record label whose foremost products were cheap compilation LPs, but I have learned that the same brand also offered other, often quirky, non-music-related household items.

Yeah, but it only music related stuff we had - like the record cleaning machine lol

Wasn't Pong some kind of tennis-based video game?

Yes, and it's the ONLY video game I've ever been able to play without making myself look a div.

There was also my brother's Scalextric where the cars spent more time off the track than on. Fun though.

They've recently done away with the Argos catalogue haven't they? End of an era.

[Lencoboy]

Yeah, but it only music related stuff we had - like the record cleaning machine lol



Yes, and it's the ONLY video game I've ever been able to play without making myself look a div.

There was also my brother's Scalextric where the cars spent more time off the track than on. Fun though.

They've recently done away with the Argos catalogue haven't they? End of an era.

I have the Spring-Summer 2020 Argos catalogue in my possession. Not sure if it's the penultimate edition or the absolute final edition though.

Whatever the case, it will be a valuable collector's item from now on!

[ankietyjoe]

You can live without it but I think with anxiety you always have to be mindful of whether you are avoiding it out of fear or using an adaptive strategy. The latter is part of recovery strategy. The former is discouraged since it just leaves irrational fear in your subconscious.

I dealt with it reading plenty of articles in the newspapers every time I went into a supermarket. That, along with other work on my anxiety, meant I no longer found myself triggered.

But the challenges differ if you are on the spectrum, which I seem to recall you are, so the above may be less relevant to you.

I avoided the news a decade before my anxiety kicked it. Not because it made me anxious (in any way), it was just transparently sensationalised so I might as well have been watching a cartoon.

The only 'news' I keep an eye on now is the covid news, but only so I know when I need to pull my kids out of school. This IS here, now, so worth keeping an eye on. I don't feel anxious about it though. I'm sure if any of my family actually caught covid my anxiety would skyrocket to new, uncharted heights

[Noivous]

The main stream news media is by and large directly tied to the left wing/globalist agenda. They operate on fear and apathy. I point to the hysterical unwarranted off the rails fear they have promulgated on the masses as exhibit A. I must say I was struck by how easily a large swath of the populous was cowed into submission. So yes we need to take a news break now and again but don't forget the communist/globalists are counting on your apathy as well. So don't totally check out. Because they bear watching.

[Lencoboy]

The main stream news media is by and large directly tied to the left wing/globalist agenda. They operate on fear and apathy. I point to the hysterical unwarranted off the rails fear they have promulgated on the masses as exhibit A. I must say I was struck by how easily a large swath of the populous was cowed into submission. So yes we need to take a news break now and again but don't forget the communist/globalists are counting on your apathy as well. So don't totally check out. Because they bear watching.

I thought it was the opposite; those on the right doing a lot of the scare-
mongering and indeed pandering to many of the 'populist' fears and prejudices.

I bet that clown Nigel Farage is having a field day over the situation in Merseyside right now, and putting on a 'fake' socialist persona in order to appease those there who are indignant about the tier 3 restrictions imposed on said area.

He is now basically just another 'has-been' who keeps starting up new whimsical 'hard-right' parties every other year in order to appeal to the thick and gullible in our society.

[MyNameIsTerry]

I thought it was the opposite; those on the right doing a lot of the scare-
mongering and indeed pandering to many of the 'populist' fears and prejudices.

I bet that clown Nigel Farage is having a field day over the situation in Merseyside right now, and putting on a 'fake' socialist persona in order to appease those there who are indignant about the tier 3 restrictions imposed on said area.

He is now basically just another 'has-been' who keeps starting up new whimsical 'hard-right' parties every other year in order to appeal to the thick and gullible in our society.

It's both but N being in the US likely means over there. Certainly here we have scaremongering right wing media and, yes, they too are globalists. Right wing conservatism in the UK was pulling us further into what has led to Brexit when it was the left who disagreed with it (for instance, Neil Kinnock who disagreed with the EU until he left Labour to become one of the EU bureaucrats and instantly changed his mind). The further to the right with the Tories and they oppose things like the EU as do the far left. Many unions support the very thing that has caused working class jobs to disappear.

Basically the media know that fear makes them money. They are businesses, not 'truth seekers' and you'll notice they change their bias as their owners change. A left wing bloke buys up a right wing mag sees it's supporters disappear and vice versa.

[NoraB]

I have the Spring-Summer 2020 Argos catalogue in my possession. Not sure if it's the penultimate edition or the absolute final edition though.

Whatever the case, it will be a valuable collector's item from now on!

I never thought of that!

Scrolling through the app just doesn't have the same appeal for me - kind of like Kindles don't spark joy in me either. (I'm such a dinosaur lol)

[MyNameIsTerry]

Damn, not long ago I threw out some old ones I found going back years!

[NoraB]

Damn, not long ago I threw out some old ones I found going back years!

You could have been on Antiques Roadshow Terry!