Your phone is a portal to constant terrible news. Here’s how to rein it in.
, natural disasters or a mass shooting, breaking news can mean an unrelenting flow of images, videos and graphic updates filling social media, messaging apps and news sites. Then there’s longer-term issues like covid, climate change and humanitarian crisis that feel impossible to look away from.
“It’s really important for us to give ourselves permission to set boundaries about our news consumption and social media,” says Kristen Choi, an assistant professor of health policy and management at UCLA and a psychiatric nurse who works with kids and adults. “That constant influx of traumatic images and content can really wear on our minds.”
For guided meditation, try out dedicated apps such as Headspace or Calm , or find any of the great offerings on YouTube.If you’re consuming news through social media, you can change your settings to try and block as much graphic content as possible. Not looking at these videos or photos do not mean you aren’t engaged or care less about an issue, and there will still be ample content about it that doesn’t include visuals.
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