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Lynx's avatar

Last Wednesday, a couple friends and I came up with "Survival Rules" to get us through this period, or at least the next three months. Some of them:

- no doomscrolling; no social media at all that makes you feel worse

- pick a regular interval to check the news on (I picked once a day)

- don't borrow trouble

- prioritize building community (aka don't treat spending time with friends as frivolous)

- pick one major issue to focus your time and energy on instead of trying to help every cause

So far, they've helped, I think. I don't miss checking the news more often. And since I know I'm only checking it once, I'm more careful about picking when I have the emotional space to get bummed out instead of first thing in the morning.

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ohhihellothere's avatar

A coworker offered this advice to me this past week, re: consuming upsetting content online: “Worrying makes me suffer twice.”

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