The news makes me extremely depressed.

[Mav]

I don't often keep up with the news, but my phone is often notified with shocking news articles and so sometimes curiosity gets the better of me and I click.

I have become really sensitive to news lately, and unlike a normal person who would be shocked and then go on with their day, I go through a different cycle of emotions. I feel shocked, then almost trumatised trying to understand why anyone would commit a crime so violent or brutal etc, and then I try to push the news story away from my mind but it keeps coming back to haunt me over the course of the day.

Today i came across this shocking headline of a man in south africa who raped a child in a restaurant, and I wish I had never read and just scrolled past the story but I did read it and now I feel really trumatised by it and its spoiled my morning even though I woke up om such a happy note.

I assume its not normal to get this upset by the news, how do I cope with this?

[Carnation]

Simple. Don't read it. Your curiosity has got the better of you. If you are of a sensitive nature, as I am, ignore it as most of the news is magnified anyway.

[Mav]

Simple. Don't read it. Your curiosity has got the better of you. If you are of a sensitive nature, as I am, ignore it as most of the news is magnified anyway.

I agree :( I can't believe how depressed I feel today and I do keep remembering the news story and feeling sad. I am of a really sensitive nature but I think I just am more sensitive on some days over others, so things bother me more on some days more than others. I think it will take me some time to forget about it because I feel so disturbed by what I read :( I feel really down:(

[Scass]

I don’t read it. Or if I do, I selectively read an online news site that isn’t sensationalised.
My partner watches the news every night, I can’t bear it. So many bad things, and I know I should spare a thought for these people, but I have to spare a thought for myself too.


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