Josman gay catoons5/26/2023 In other words, you know it feels bad and brings down your emotional state directly when you see terrible news and endless anger and rage, but you feel as though if you stop engaging with it, worse things will happen. Social media has a special kind of barbed-hook quality that manages to cause harm even while preventing you from looking away or escaping. Twitter and Instagram can warp your perception of yourself and your world What I wasn’t doing was allowing those things to come to me, but rather seeking them out obsessively to stay “informed.” That doesn’t sound like much of a distinction, but it really is. I still read too much news, and shared too many doom-focused articles with friends and family. Which isn’t to say I was ignoring the events of the world. When my personal situation started to become more stressful (back in April/May of 2020), and at my therapist’s advice, I took a day off from checking and responding on social media. One of the better things I did for myself during this last year and a half was to completely pull out of Twitter and Instagram. The truth is- and I’ve said it before-this last 18+ months has been life changing for many folks all around the world. It seems like every other post on the front page of badwolf.blog now is me saying “ oops sorry I didn’t die I’m just not around…” That’s not totally by accident. I took intentional time off from Instagram and Twitter so as not to lose my whole mind.
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