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How to Feel Better Despite the Headlines
Some things to keep you sane while the world burns.
There’s a pandemic, the stock market is playing double dutch, there’s an election happening somewhere behind all that, and we just observed the byzantine rite of Daylight Saving Time, which if you’re like me, ruins everything for at least a week.
I definitely feel the urge to let my anxiety take the reins and glue myself to my newsfeed. But I know that absolutely won’t serve me, and I’m doing lots of things to make sure that doesn’t happen. I thought I’d share what I’m doing to keep myself sane, especially as they’re things you can do whether or not you have the luxury of social distancing.
Limiting my news exposure.
This is a HUGE one, as “News Stress Exposure” is really a thing. I was reading an article the other day that had a pandemic expert advise, to paraphrase, that it’s better to read ten minutes of good news once a day than ten hours of ratings-grabbing coverage throughout the day. So I’m trying to limit my exposure to both dirty germ hands AND to news. I don’t usually achieve once a day status, but I do try to refresh my NYTimes page only a few times daily.
