> I can't do anything about it. You can. I use noise-cancelling earphones and earplugs to sleep. > I do not like reading this type of news at all, it has a ne

> I can't do anything about it. You can. I use noise-cancelling earphones and earplugs to sleep. > I do not like reading this type of news at all, it has a negative psychological effect on me, and a lot of news seems to follow this pattern. I share your feeling. > We're all going to die, get cancer, ingest microplastics, climate change is going to kill us, but there's nothing we can do about it. Great. I am none the wiser and I'm measurably more miserable. Why should I continue reading the news? I think we should policy our news consumption and that there's a middle ground between information and sanity though this is a hard problem. News and social media are extremely harmful to mental health and productivity. I use https://www.newsminimalist.com/ https://www.newsminimalist.com/ and mostly just read the headlines. Take a minute per day and saves me from opening news sites during the day.