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Why you should disconnect, and how to do it effectively
MayoClinic.org ^ | March 30, 2023 | Mayo Clinic Staff

Posted on 03/30/2023 5:41:10 PM PDT by FryingPan101

Every day brings a constant barrage of news and social media. The access is great — it's never been easier to stay informed about what's going on in the world around you. In turn, being informed on current events helps you stay connected to the world.

But unending access to information often comes at a high price: your mental health.

Take these steps to stay informed — and keep your mental wellness intact.

Be selective with news coverage. Choose one or two sources you trust.

(Excerpt) Read more at mayoclinic.org ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: advice; health; mental
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I guess there’s something more shocking coming than indicting the former POTUS and they think if we’re selective about how we learn of it, we won’t go crazy. Nice try.
1 posted on 03/30/2023 5:41:10 PM PDT by FryingPan101
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To: FryingPan101

I disconnected my kids long before they ever ‘connected’. Sadly, many parents prefer the free ‘babysitting’.


2 posted on 03/30/2023 5:42:33 PM PDT by BobL
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Choose one or two sources you trust.

Meaning, of course, choose one or two sources who passionately, feverishly hate the same racist, misogynistic, transphobic, Earth-destroying, Carbon-belching, Bible-thumping, trigger-happy capitalist zionist animal-rights-abusing, very-very-bad-no-good tweeting oil-slick dumping right-wing monsters you do!


3 posted on 03/30/2023 5:47:55 PM PDT by golux
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To: FryingPan101

Best thing to do is what Rush used to do which is take a weekend off. No tv, no computer, no smartphone. Read a book, take a walk, just disconnect from electronic devices.


4 posted on 03/30/2023 5:48:24 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: golux

Of course. And they will pick our two trustworthy sources to consume. Mine is CNN and CBS.


5 posted on 03/30/2023 5:51:43 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: FryingPan101

Hey Mayo, Go tell the Rats to disconnect and tune out. That would be good for them. Just ignore politics and other stressful things like elections.


6 posted on 03/30/2023 6:06:43 PM PDT by caddie (We must all become Trump, starting now!)
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To: FryingPan101

Buy a motorcycle. Go for a ride. The proper way to disconnect . . .


7 posted on 03/30/2023 6:26:18 PM PDT by BraveMan
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To: FryingPan101

We are apparently having an Covid variant. I have had it for at least a weak. Besides the normal aches and pains, our sinususes are under attack full bore from 4/5 pm, to about noon the next day.

We sip/spit out the infected crud into a cup and flush it down.

Friends our age have been fighting this crud for over month.
We have had more rain in the last 4 weeks, So far the standard treamtment been just anti allegry drugs.


8 posted on 03/30/2023 6:30:01 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Democrats Have All ready Won the 2024 Election, Regardless of Whom, Either Party Runs!!!)
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To: FryingPan101

MAYO? What did you say about Covid and vaxes, MAYO?


9 posted on 03/30/2023 6:34:36 PM PDT by goodnesswins (The Chinese are teaching calculus to their 3rd graders wh to sile ours are trying to pick a pronoun.)
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To: Grampa Dave

Just watch one news show….forget everything else….it is all noise…

if you have kids do things with them…get out of the house..


10 posted on 03/30/2023 6:34:48 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: FryingPan101

I’ve had to draw back. For news — and I can only take so much of that — there’s FR. It’s all here.
Over a year ago I quit watching the post-Tucker lineup. Couldn’t take Hannity and Ingraham any longer. Then a few months back, much as I admire his mind, I couldn’t watch Tucker anymore.
Talk never amounts to anything and talk is all we do. Probably all we ever will do.


11 posted on 03/30/2023 6:35:23 PM PDT by Buttons12 ( Do you not think an Angel rides in the Whirlwind and directs this Storm?)
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To: FryingPan101

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12 posted on 03/30/2023 6:37:37 PM PDT by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum )
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Sorry for the offense.


13 posted on 03/30/2023 7:15:44 PM PDT by FryingPan101 (“It’s weird being the same age as old people.” -unknown)
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To: FryingPan101
'unending access to information often comes at a high price: your mental health.'

I think I've realized this in recent weeks.

Even on FR, there are so many individual posters who seem to be always trying to scare us out of our minds.

I decided to just trust in the Lord, and limit my reading to things that seem essential...
14 posted on 03/30/2023 7:40:01 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: goodnesswins

I recently completed a round of cancer surgery and follow-up at Mayo. They never asked about my COVID vaccine status at any time. They did ask if I was experiencing any symptoms as I entered.


15 posted on 03/30/2023 7:50:28 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The power of the press is not in what it includes, rather, it's in what is omitted.)
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To: FryingPan101

I think people can simply not engage so deeply into news they can do nothing about yet being aware of events and happenings in a broader sense.


16 posted on 03/30/2023 7:55:13 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: norwaypinesavage

Good.


17 posted on 03/30/2023 8:08:07 PM PDT by goodnesswins (The Chinese are teaching calculus to their 3rd graders wh to sile ours are trying to pick a pronoun.)
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To: norwaypinesavage

And prayers for good health for you.


18 posted on 03/30/2023 8:09:00 PM PDT by goodnesswins (The Chinese are teaching calculus to their 3rd graders wh to sile ours are trying to pick a pronoun.)
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To: FryingPan101

No offense taken. I was just describing what I get every day, thus validating the point of your post.


19 posted on 03/30/2023 8:27:34 PM PDT by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum )
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To: Luke21

Mine is CNN and CBS.

That’s funny.


20 posted on 03/30/2023 9:40:56 PM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable STILL . )
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