The News; Are You Triggered? And Can You Cope With It?

[disenchanted]

I don't like how some news stations try to scare people, even their 20 second blurbs.."giant ants ravaging the earth, the tragedy and what you can do to stay safe at 9:00".

The news depresses me. I can't always take the inhumanity. And stories about our eco system really scare me, I'm flippin channels and there's this polar bear stuck out on a very small island of ice and I know she's gong to starveto death and the ice is melting b/c we are all such horrible greedy slobs and my carbon footprint is gigantic and off I go.

I like 2quilt's idea....food channel. :thumbs-up

 

[reallydown]

Well, many polar bears drown because they have to swim longer distances as the melting ice breaks up under them. Ok...this is hardly helpful. Sorry.

 

[disenchanted]

reallydown

Yes. Not helpful.

Imagine myself rowing out to save them and being eaten by a bear.

 

[Holly89]

I can watch my local news and the nightly news on NBC, but I can't go on any news sites(MSNBC,ABC,CNN,etc). I'm triggered by several celebrities so that's why I avoid news sites. My local news never has anything celebrity related and the only time the nightly news has something is if someone died(they are fairly young so I shouldn't have to worry about that for a few more decades) or if they are doing something for a charity. I subscribe to Newsweek but my mom has to check it before I read it. Whenever news comes on the radio, I have to change the station just in case.

 

[Katja]

Fin :)

I think there should be a channel on TV that only shows the miracles of life and wonderful things that happen in people's lives! I too get triggered watching the news and feel like we live in a very unsafe world and I get scared and I get nightmares easily...and it goes right back to feeling violated and lost! I think I am gonna have a tv vacation and only watch movies that I have chosen myself. That is a biggie for me feeling like I have no choice..but I do! I can't believe how much running has made me feel a lot better and more in charge and it has taken me long to get here! Wishing u a good weekend with some happy news and programs.

Katja

 

[fin]

So what is news to you?

Maybe a new thread?

Or maybe enough threads from me and maybe just a new way to look at things perhaps. Do we have any new ways to look at things yet? Again maybe a new thread in there too.

This is very enlightening to me, everything here. I hope it is to you also.

~fin

I would like to thank everyone that reads here, this has helped me enormously. I hope it doesn't stop, and I hope it can help you too.