I've been trying not to watch the news lately
I feel like watching the news just makes me spend more and builds up stress, so I turned off all my morning notifications. Instead, I only skim it once on weekends. It has definitely made me feel more at ease.
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Agreed—turning off news notifications these days has really made things feel less hectic.
Is there a source? It might just be my imagination.
Turning off notifications really works well. I just deleted the app from my phone lol
I don't agree. Isn't avoiding the news just avoidance rather than reducing stress? Saying it's more comfortable to live without knowing what's happening in the world is a bit...
Well, that’s a bit... If you don’t watch the news, you end up living without knowing what’s going on in the world, and I’m not sure that’s really peace of mind. Not knowing isn’t bliss—it just makes you ignorant.
This is so true lol. Since last year, I’ve deleted all my news apps and only skim one newspaper on weekends, and my stress has dropped a lot. But there’s one problem: I can’t keep up with the issues people around me are talking about, so it’s hard to join conversations... that feels like a bit of a downside. So these days I just installed an app that only shows headlines and look at just the titles.
I’m also not looking at my phone in the mornings these days, and it really does change how the day starts. But if you catch up all at once on the weekend, doesn’t that hit you in one big burst and leave you even more tired? That was tough for me, so I just watch one 10-minute YouTube news summary. If I skip even that, I end up with no idea what’s going on in the world, so going completely cold turkey seems a bit risky—filtering seems like the answer.