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What was the piece of media so emotionally overwhelming you just stopped it? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 10 months ago by andrew_bidlaw to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (4 children)

The news

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Same. For many years now. I didnt even remember that some people actually watch the news regularly.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

There was a news station I saw while vacationing in the Smokies. They called it "news with a heart". They did all the same news stories, bit didn't dwell on the death toll or show video of the carnage. It was the first time I didn't become enraged by the news.

We have a drinking game for the NBC Nightly News. Drink any time they say "breaking news", "disaster", "epidemic" or show people crying. You won't make it through the news.

[–] andrew_bidlaw 3 points 10 months ago

The correct answer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I have a friend who regularly shares the latest news that brings him mental anguish, followed by messages along the lines of "the world is doomed, society is trash, how can anyone sleep soundly at night knowing the terrors that are happening this very second". I don't know why he still follows them. It's not like he takes action against these things, and most often he can't do anything against them even if he wanted to, and this feeling of powerlessness, helplessness, hopelessness, is weighing him down so much.