A few years ago I got rid of my TV hookup due to traveling so much. Other than Downton Abbey and Coronation Street and a little bit of news I was surprised how little I missed it! I started spending my time in other ways, like writing, volunteer work, reading, listening to music, going out and about, interacting with people.
So just to stay in the loop, I got into a comfortably liveable habit of checking the news a couple of times a week on the internet, and inadvertently the odd time on my car radio. Then coronavirus world struck
I began checking the news once a day (on a couple of selected websites only). Which worked very well for several weeks. Then, for no good reason, some days I was checking it twice.
It t turns out (like I couldn't see this coming ) it can be a slippery slope! This morning I made the mistake of spending way too long clicking from one news site to another, down the rabbit hole that leads only to more and deeper rabbit holes....
Ack! Time to save me from myself
So I came here onto the forum to put this out where I, and others, can see it. Because I need the reminder that my mental health can go down that rabbit hole of bad news after bad news far too quickly. It gets me feeling icky and sad and anxious and low -- and I don't like that one bit.
Don't get me wrong. I think it's completely natural, in this uncertain and unsettling time, to feel icky and sad and anxious and low. Some of the time. But I don't want to get stuck in those feelings or bring them on unnecessarily. Especially given my history of depression, with anxiety thrown in.
So I hope I've had my wake up call on the news thing.
And now, I'm going to pry myself out for a walk on this double-digit-above-zero snow-melting breezy beautiful day. Instead of the news, I can watch last fall's poplar leaves dance in the wind, listen to their rustling sound, and be grateful that I can breathe
<3 (That's meant to be a heart, to spread a bit of love to whoever has made it through this post!)
So just to stay in the loop, I got into a comfortably liveable habit of checking the news a couple of times a week on the internet, and inadvertently the odd time on my car radio. Then coronavirus world struck
I began checking the news once a day (on a couple of selected websites only). Which worked very well for several weeks. Then, for no good reason, some days I was checking it twice.
It t turns out (like I couldn't see this coming ) it can be a slippery slope! This morning I made the mistake of spending way too long clicking from one news site to another, down the rabbit hole that leads only to more and deeper rabbit holes....
Ack! Time to save me from myself
So I came here onto the forum to put this out where I, and others, can see it. Because I need the reminder that my mental health can go down that rabbit hole of bad news after bad news far too quickly. It gets me feeling icky and sad and anxious and low -- and I don't like that one bit.
Don't get me wrong. I think it's completely natural, in this uncertain and unsettling time, to feel icky and sad and anxious and low. Some of the time. But I don't want to get stuck in those feelings or bring them on unnecessarily. Especially given my history of depression, with anxiety thrown in.
So I hope I've had my wake up call on the news thing.
And now, I'm going to pry myself out for a walk on this double-digit-above-zero snow-melting breezy beautiful day. Instead of the news, I can watch last fall's poplar leaves dance in the wind, listen to their rustling sound, and be grateful that I can breathe
<3 (That's meant to be a heart, to spread a bit of love to whoever has made it through this post!)
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