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Can watching and listening to much news make you feel depressed?

Can watching and listening to too much news make you feel depressed?

  • Yes

    Votes: 6 60.0%

  • No

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 4 40.0%
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there was a time i used to keep my ears pinned to the news listening to what was going on all over the world and at home.

i noticed i began to feel and think in a negative ways towards people i know and the outside world around me, that i cut my news watching down to only a small amount and focus more on activities which has made me feel better, be a more mellow person, and use far less foul language in regular conversation.





p.s. could not get the poll working for me.
 
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No news is good news.

For me news is kind of like sport. How about that humiliating Kiev retreat from Debaltseve.
 
ernst barkmann said:
there was a time i used to keep my ears pinned to the news listening to what was going on all over the world and at home.

i noticed i began to feel and think in a negative ways towards people i know and the outside world around me, that i cut my news watching down to only a small amount and focus more on activities which has made me feel better, be a more mellow person, and use far less foul language in regular conversation.





p.s. could not get the poll working for me.
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Maybe, depends. It might also cheer you up if you're focused too much on feeling bad about your own circumstances giving you the opportunity to realize it could be worse and is worse for some people.
 
Smeagol said:
Maybe, depends. It might also cheer you up if you're focused too much on feeling bad about your own circumstances giving you the opportunity to realize it could be worse and is worse for some people.
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actually things for me are not bad at all, but watching it day to day, problems after problems, is to me a downer and seeing other people in a bad way does not make me feel better about myself.
 
ernst barkmann said:
there was a time i used to keep my ears pinned to the news listening to what was going on all over the world and at home.

i noticed i began to feel and think in a negative ways towards people i know and the outside world around me, that i cut my news watching down to only a small amount and focus more on activities which has made me feel better, be a more mellow person, and use far less foul language in regular conversation.





p.s. could not get the poll working for me.
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You better be careful. If you stop watching that mindbender box, you might start thinking like me. Use the Internet. Google for real news. Learn to use keywords to get info on any and all subjects. If it will make you feel better, there is probably much less starvation in the world than 50 years ago. Less disease, even if some diseases are more dangerous. The problem is always the people who want to control the world, instead of seeking a stable planet.
 
DaveFagan said:
You better be careful. If you stop watching that mindbender box, you might start thinking like me. Use the Internet. Google for real news. Learn to use keywords to get info on any and all subjects. If it will make you feel better, there is probably much less starvation in the world than 50 years ago. Less disease, even if some diseases are more dangerous. The problem is always the people who want to control the world, instead of seeking a stable planet.
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nothing truer can be said!
 
When CNN first started 24 hour news coverage (yes, I know that dates me), I got addicted to watching news all day long...even left it on as background when I was doing other things. It definitely made me get depressed, and once I realized that it was the constant (mostly bad) news was what was causing my depression, I quit watching CNN. I rarely watch any TV news anymore. I read most of my news online now, and often just scan headlines. I'm no longer depressed...most of the time. I realize more now than I did then, though...like what little I do have control over is pretty much just normal stuff that we can all control on a daily basis. I no longer think I can personally change the world.
 
I never watch TV news, I never pay the slightest attention to for-profit news sources, they only care about drawing a crowd so they can sell advertising. Honestly, the news doesn't depress me very often, it's people who talk about the news, people who are clueless idiots, who depress me more.
 
ernst barkmann said:
there was a time i used to keep my ears pinned to the news listening to what was going on all over the world and at home.

i noticed i began to feel and think in a negative ways towards people i know and the outside world around me, that i cut my news watching down to only a small amount and focus more on activities which has made me feel better, be a more mellow person, and use far less foul language in regular conversation.
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I think so. I still like to be aware, but have found that I need to "pace myself", if you will.
 
ernst barkmann said:
there was a time i used to keep my ears pinned to the news listening to what was going on all over the world and at home.

i noticed i began to feel and think in a negative ways towards people i know and the outside world around me, that i cut my news watching down to only a small amount and focus more on activities which has made me feel better, be a more mellow person, and use far less foul language in regular conversation.





p.s. could not get the poll working for me.
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I understand what you're saying. There are some days I just can't turn the news on because it's so damn depressing. Then there are other days I'm glued to it, like in the days immediately preceding elections. I also sometimes watch the news if I'm feeling down for some silly reason, because then it makes me realize that my life is pretty good because I inevitably see someone whose life is just so bad.
 
I suppose it can make a person feel depressed. I generally take breaks before that depressing feeling happens to me, it's good to breath freely every once in a while and the news will still there when I decide to get back to it.

All news all the time, leaves no time for fun!
 
Depends on the person. The vast majority of media I watch is the news. I watch a little television news, but then I watch and read news mainly online. Are some of the stories saddening? Yes. Are most of them? Yes. Does it depress me? Sometimes. For the most part it makes me receive a global perspective of the world. Do we I feel actual pain? No. Do I feel remorse? Yes. But I will admit, I myself for most of the stories do not feel "sad". For some stories, yes. But for many of them? No. I (and I suspect their are many of us) are simply "used to it". The invention of mass media, be it Facebook, twitter, 24/7 "news", etc has lead us to gather a massive form of media, news, and info in real time, basically whenever we ant it. It has for a lot of us and for a lot of stories made us to accept these stories as the "new norm". Is this "new norm" the actual reality of the world? For many that live through it, yes. For many, no.
 
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