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Suppression of emotional reactions is not a good long-term strategy for mental health.

• GuB-42 4y ago
  What seems to be bad is not communicating your emotions. Like being sad but not showing it, because you want to show how strong you are. But it is not exactly that here. "Who cares" is not something you do for others, it is something you do for yourself. And I don't think it is bad, at least compared to the alternative, which is feeling helpless because something horrible happened somewhere and there is not much you can do about it, you may try, but then another horrible thing happens and you really can't do anything about that one, and again, and again...
• JKCalhoun 4y ago
  That sounds likely. The problem I am having in this century though is the firehose of really shitty news that I didn't used to get deluged with. I suppose I probably knew that statistically someone, somewhere might be shooting up their family, tossing their daughter off a bridge or some other such horrific thing. Perhaps we lived in a much smaller world when I was younger or perhaps the newspaper and TV news acted as a filter that kept some of these awful things in the marginalia (so to speak). Doom scrolling, cataclysm overload can be extremely mentally unhealthy I have found. I may not be as flippant as the person you were responding to, but I too feel I have to take the negative news in moderation lest I get pulled down with it.