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Originally Posted by BSiple
Turn off the news.
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This.
#1 best thing I did for myself back in 2008-09 when I was suffering from clinical depression. The constant “the end of the world is nigh” crap pumping out of every radio, TV and newspaper outlet didn’t help. Neither did the internet feeds or constantly negative postings by people. I shut it all down and went on a serious exercise and meditation regimen which did wonders. The world didn’t end, the sun didn’t explode, there was no “new dark ages”, there was no rapture and things eventually got better.
Much of reality is self-fulfilling prophecies. If we think things are ok, they will tend to be. If we allow ourselves to be manipulated into thinking things are going to hell, we will tend to make choices that encourage that outcome. For one I choose realism with a tinge of optimism about our collective futures. The so-called “news” does nothing for us usually and most of it isn’t even news anyhow - it’s just sensationalist nonsense to draw indiscriminate rubes to the idiot box so they can be subjected to pickup truck and viagra ads.