So I’m trying to kick a bad doomscrolling habit I’ve developed around political news specifically. I’d like to find a balance between “constant low-grade desensitized misery from watching a burning world” (where I’m at now) and “ignorant bliss indifference interspersed with periodic shock followed by deep depression at how bad it’s gotten” (how I ended up when I tried to cut out the news completely in the past).
How do you handle this?
Some ideas I’ve found so far:
- Curate your news sources. What are some sources for US/Global politics that aren’t totally doompilled, but also don’t shy away from scary/inconvenient topics like the collapse of US democracy or the genocide in Gaza?
- Limit news intake. How do you manage this, when every outlet is doing their utmost to make you click on article after article, video after video? And how do you fight the internal impulse to doomscroll?
Any other ideas?
Yeah… reading Straight Arrow News and thinking it’s unbiased would be a way to be more positive. Probably enjoy the news of people being deported to random counties if you read it long enough.