{"id":4186,"date":"2018-01-05T02:18:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T02:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=4186"},"modified":"2018-01-05T02:18:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T02:18:49","slug":"constant-consumption-of-news-leads-to-anxiety-sleep-problems-night-mares-sense-of-distraction-and-loss-of-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2018\/01\/05\/constant-consumption-of-news-leads-to-anxiety-sleep-problems-night-mares-sense-of-distraction-and-loss-of-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Constant consumption of news leads to anxiety, sleep problems, night mares, sense of distraction and loss of control"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Staying informed is a strength, but for many people it&#8217;s mushroomed into an obsession with the news.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/posteverything\/wp\/2018\/01\/04\/my-therapy-clients-cant-tear-themselves-away-from-the-news-and-its-messing-with-their-lives\/\">My therapy clients can\u2019t tear themselves away from the news \u2014 and it\u2019s messing with their lives &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><br \/>\nPersonally, I found that certain subjects were &#8220;triggering&#8221; anxiety in me and I have cut way back on news and social media consumption. I also unfollowed or unfriended individuals who spent most of their social media time baiting people with hostile political rants. These steps led to improved sleep and better mental health.<br \/>\nThrough my fascination with propaganda and the creation of this web site, I learned how media is manipulative. I learned how it uses emotional hooks as bait for our attention, and how these hooks inflame our emotional state. I learned that ranting on social media is not healthy for those doing the ranting nor for their drive by victims.<br \/>\nI learned that a large quantity of news is speculation, often intended to inflame our emotions (and the speculation generally proves unfounded when we look back at old news stories). I also learned that much news is pointless, exaggerated, lacking in context or surprisingly wrong. We pretend we are being informed when in reality news is mostly a distraction and a form of entertainment.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve gone to a 24 x 7 cable TV driven news cycle &#8211; where almost all of it is repetitive drivel and speculation of no importance to any of us. We will doubtfully remember most stories in a day, let a lone in a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staying informed is a strength, but for many people it&#8217;s mushroomed into an obsession with the news. Source: My therapy clients can\u2019t tear themselves away from the news \u2014 and it\u2019s messing with their lives &#8211; The Washington Post Personally, I found that certain subjects were &#8220;triggering&#8221; anxiety in me and I have cut way back on news and social media consumption. I also unfollowed or unfriended individuals who spent most of their social media time baiting people with hostile&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2018\/01\/05\/constant-consumption-of-news-leads-to-anxiety-sleep-problems-night-mares-sense-of-distraction-and-loss-of-control\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,31,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-mental-health","category-fictional-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}