Posted on 06/04/2018 7:08:14 AM PDT by EdnaMode
With every news alert or breaking story, our world seems to be pushed further and further into crisis. It is taking a serious toll on our environment but also on our mental health.
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With the surge of technology, social media and a 24-hour news cycle, exposure to traumatic events has rapidly increased over the past few decades, as well. According to a survey conducted by Pew in 2015, "65% of adults now use social networking sites -- a nearly tenfold jump in the past decade." Much of the public's news consumption occurs on these digital platforms.
The world has always been stressful, but experiencing acute events occurring thousands of miles away is a new and challenging phenomenon. On any given day, it feels like the world is falling apart.
How can we brace for disaster and find the strength to withstand it? How will we adapt to our greater exposure to trauma? And will our mental health be sacrificed in the process?
Our brains are hardwired to process stress relating to trauma by entering what is known as "fight, flight, freeze" mode before returning to a restful state, explained Susanne Babbel, a psychotherapist specializing in trauma recovery. However, constant exposure to trauma can derail our ability to cope healthily and hinder our ability to return to a relaxed state.
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CNN is part of the problem.
I’ve never felt better!
Too Much Bad News Can Make You Sick
CNN ^ | June 1, 2018 | Alexandra Pattillo
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No $h!!! Dick Tracy!!!
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THEY call it OVERWHELM Americans (in all aspects of Americanism!) They know, THEY’re experts!
Hillary is living proof, of course she’s been nuts for years.
Fake news on the other hand will make you even sicker.
cnn turns good events into bad news, and bad events into good news. I turn cnn off.
Really? The 'environment' and 'mental health' behave exactly the same way and are in tune with each other? Now that's an angle to the great consciousness that I've never heard before.
As for mental health, the author may have a point. I was suffering a 'serious toll' after 8 years of Obama and was feeling a bit sluggish.... but I shook it off.
Proverbs 17:22 —
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
What about too much Winning?
Seems to me we should read the Bible first and skip CNN, and all other sources of bad (dishonest, lying, fake, untruthful) news.
And I expect this was written before the two SCOTUS rulings came out today.
The writer must be puking her guts out about now. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.)
Too much propaganda poisons your mind.
Cure... Turn off the boob tube.
To much FAKE news can make you sick!
I watch only one news show...Tucker Carlson...
Love the way he mocks the libturds....
And he covers stories the MSM barely touch....
My immune system must b above avg. to survive 8 years of the “Brown Clown”
Yes, sick of watching the MSM and then I felt better.
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