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- Wake up - Grab a coffee and two cigarettes - Go take the big pile of pills "against" depression and autism - Read some world news - Get some more pills - Take

- Wake up - Grab a coffee and two cigarettes - Go take the big pile of pills "against" depression and autism - Read some world news - Get some more pills - Take a shower, thinking about killing myself, but telling myself "pills will start working in 20 minutes" - Get another coffee and another two cigarettes until second batch of pills kick in - Start coding

Fischgericht 2y ago
Just be clear: This is my DAILY morning routine for ages. So outside of that 20 minutes "Weltschmerz [1] shower" time window I am not suicidal. :) [1] "Weltschmerz" - the ONLY German word you'll ever need to learn.
- SapporoChris 2y ago
  Thank you, I appreciate the new vocabulary. However, I still enjoy Schadenfreude.
  - krsdcbl 2y ago
    They strangely work quite well together
  - rnewme 2y ago
    epicaricacy being more or less the English equivalent btw
tills13 2y ago
Skipping the world news might be good for your mental these days
- scruple 2y ago
  I've gone cold turkey over the holiday break and I literally felt the anxiety melting away.
  - auc 2y ago
    Yeah, I personally take the view that any really important news will find me anyways
    - scruple 2y ago
      Yep, I've adopted that mentality. Finally. I wish it hadn't taken me so, so long. My wife even commented that I'm much less on-edge, much less prone to find the negative in things. It's sort of like a switch inside of my brain has been welded permanently to the off position, it's pretty wild how it only takes 2-3 weeks for the brain to sort itself out after many years of being stuck in some cycle.
      - Quinzel 2y ago
        I haven’t watched/read the news in years and I feel so liberated from it. When something worth knowing happens, I still hear about it. But not consuming news gives me the space I need to think independently about things from the influences of mass produced media. It’s beautiful
        califool 2y ago
        I am going on a year from watching. feels good.
        zeeed 2y ago
        Serious question: so to all posters above me in this thread, do you do HN regularly as a social but just avoid other sites?
        Quinzel 2y ago
        Yeah, I don’t frequent many websites. I go on Facebook occasionally intermittently, but go through phases where I deactivate it. I also go on my university website for my online learning but I don’t go on many websites.
- Fischgericht 2y ago
  Doesn't work for me. I feel much safer tracking the disintegration of civilization in real-time, making predictions based on that information, and adapt the timing of my escape plans accordingly. So I must newspapers from all around the world every morning, even if it's painful. I have to admit though: Yesterday I cheated. On new years morning I skipped all world news to beat 2025 to it, delaying the inevitable by a day. Worked well, as it turns out. And I wasn't too smelly due to it, either :)
  - tills13 2y ago
    > adapt the timing of my escape plans accordingly No offense but unless you have at least $1b or are incredibly lucky you're screwed no matter how prepared you are. Menial and positive stories aren't as engaging resulting in the "news" being nothing but a list of all the awful shit that happened recently. Enjoy life while you still have it. As another commenter already said, important stories will find you anyways.
    - Fischgericht 2y ago
      Very off-topic here, but no, money is not the key when trying to find a spot on this planet that nobody does have on their radar when it comes to fucking up the planet on short notice :) Also: Different people, different coping strategies. I don't want to wait until the "Active Shooter!" cell broadcast message finds its way to my phone. :) For some people, potentially especially those on the spectrum, having as much information as possible to work with might bring mental security and stability. People are different, brains are diverse.
      - nrr 2y ago
        I'm also on team Keep An Eye On Things™, and approximately none of it really feeds into an anxiety loop. (There's a tiny sliver of the pie that does, but it's easy enough to talk myself off that ledge and go engage in a Weltschmerzspaziergang[0].) I know it's stuff I can't control, and that's sort of the point. I want to know what I can't control so that I can know what I can control, if that makes sense. 0: Otherwise known as "touching grass."

Fischgericht 2y ago

Just be clear: This is my DAILY morning routine for ages. So outside of that 20 minutes "Weltschmerz [1] shower" time window I am not suicidal. :) [1] "Weltschmerz" - the ONLY German word you'll ever need to learn.

SapporoChris 2y ago
Thank you, I appreciate the new vocabulary. However, I still enjoy Schadenfreude.
- krsdcbl 2y ago
  They strangely work quite well together
- rnewme 2y ago
  epicaricacy being more or less the English equivalent btw

tills13 2y ago

Skipping the world news might be good for your mental these days

scruple 2y ago
I've gone cold turkey over the holiday break and I literally felt the anxiety melting away.
- auc 2y ago
  Yeah, I personally take the view that any really important news will find me anyways
  - scruple 2y ago
    Yep, I've adopted that mentality. Finally. I wish it hadn't taken me so, so long. My wife even commented that I'm much less on-edge, much less prone to find the negative in things. It's sort of like a switch inside of my brain has been welded permanently to the off position, it's pretty wild how it only takes 2-3 weeks for the brain to sort itself out after many years of being stuck in some cycle.
    - Quinzel 2y ago
      I haven’t watched/read the news in years and I feel so liberated from it. When something worth knowing happens, I still hear about it. But not consuming news gives me the space I need to think independently about things from the influences of mass produced media. It’s beautiful
      - califool 2y ago
        I am going on a year from watching. feels good.
        zeeed 2y ago
        Serious question: so to all posters above me in this thread, do you do HN regularly as a social but just avoid other sites?
        Quinzel 2y ago
        Yeah, I don’t frequent many websites. I go on Facebook occasionally intermittently, but go through phases where I deactivate it. I also go on my university website for my online learning but I don’t go on many websites.
Fischgericht 2y ago
Doesn't work for me. I feel much safer tracking the disintegration of civilization in real-time, making predictions based on that information, and adapt the timing of my escape plans accordingly. So I must newspapers from all around the world every morning, even if it's painful. I have to admit though: Yesterday I cheated. On new years morning I skipped all world news to beat 2025 to it, delaying the inevitable by a day. Worked well, as it turns out. And I wasn't too smelly due to it, either :)
- tills13 2y ago
  > adapt the timing of my escape plans accordingly No offense but unless you have at least $1b or are incredibly lucky you're screwed no matter how prepared you are. Menial and positive stories aren't as engaging resulting in the "news" being nothing but a list of all the awful shit that happened recently. Enjoy life while you still have it. As another commenter already said, important stories will find you anyways.
  - Fischgericht 2y ago
    Very off-topic here, but no, money is not the key when trying to find a spot on this planet that nobody does have on their radar when it comes to fucking up the planet on short notice :) Also: Different people, different coping strategies. I don't want to wait until the "Active Shooter!" cell broadcast message finds its way to my phone. :) For some people, potentially especially those on the spectrum, having as much information as possible to work with might bring mental security and stability. People are different, brains are diverse.
    - nrr 2y ago
      I'm also on team Keep An Eye On Things™, and approximately none of it really feeds into an anxiety loop. (There's a tiny sliver of the pie that does, but it's easy enough to talk myself off that ledge and go engage in a Weltschmerzspaziergang[0].) I know it's stuff I can't control, and that's sort of the point. I want to know what I can't control so that I can know what I can control, if that makes sense. 0: Otherwise known as "touching grass."