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"Been through bad time lately with suffering with this. Dark thoughts as well. I know some posters on here suffer with this. Anyone come through the other side of this shit?

"A number of posters have been yellow carded and told to stay off this thread unless they have anything constructive to add.This is a thread that has been very useful to so many, for any other posters with scores to settle, argue on another thread. This thread is sacrosant.Thank you"

"""get a grip"" Jesus fucking wept."

"sidney, was it when bilic was in charge? üò¨"

"Tomshardware 12:55 Wed Jan 15 Re: Anxiety/depression Branded it's an illness. When you have anxiety no matter how much you think to yourself and tell your brain that there's no need to feel stressed or anxious, you're brain doesn't listen. It's like the wiring is fucked. I recognise that and have already said ""get a grip"". My sister called me a couple of years ago saying she could hardly breathe because of anxiety. I have a doctor friend who uses a mindfulness app to help people with anxiety conditions so I downloaded it and over the phone went through the process. Within 20 minutes she was already feeling better. A little bit. She still uses it but is now back to full normal health because she took control of her life and moved on. No matter what you do, get a grip, make a decision and move with it."

https://careersinpsychology.org/ten-worst-habits-mental-health/

You asked for it..... https://www.mindwise.org/blog/uncategorized/when-media-coverage-becomes-too-much/ https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/why-we-worry/201206/the-psychological-effects-tv-news https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6198586/

"It would be good manners for you to 'google search' and provide some, given that you are the one who introduced the notion in the first place."

"joe, you can't tell if a person who is depressed or not just by looking at them, people can look happy and still be depressed, tears of a clown, anyone?"

"Can we stop petty arguing on this important thread at least please? Supportive, positive comments needed. Not lecturing, no matter how well informed it is or not."

"There's a lot of evidence to support it, a simple google search will show it. As I said, not everyone will react to it, I don't but there's a lot of research to suggest constant negative rhetoric is not good for your mental health."

"I've talked on here in the past regarding my mentalness. I've been the subject to a section twice, once a section 2 and once a section 4. I have never used hard drugs and I'm not a drinker and I have bipolar (2, if you're remotely interested). The main point is that you WILL come through this, as hopeless it may seem. You may think about killing yourself but that is a permanent solution to what is a temporary problem. But you do need help. And try not to wait for the crisis to go get it. You need to do some exercise (long country walks help me hugely) and mindfulness, as trendy as it is, has helped me a lot. And the drugs. I take them because I need them and they help. It's not my fault I'm like this, I have 4 first cousins on my mum's side that are BP and one that is schizoaffective. 3 of us have been sectioned at some time or another. Be open about your problems. Be compassionate to yourself. Understand the best things in life are not things. Go and start with your own head, that's where the problem lies and you can change the way your process things. Don't expect too much of yourself. Don't want things. We all seemed happier when we all had less and weren't 'aspirational'. Be aspirational for your own contentment and nothing else. Don't feel you need to have an opinion on everything, you don't. You can be neutral, even on Brexit! Being neutral on any given issue is okay. Oh, and don't support West Ham! Peace on you my friend, never expect to master your mental health, your goal is to be able to cope with it when it get's bad. And you will."

Ah the heady days of positive world news in 1939

Is this your opinion or is it backed up by research?

"Sorry , should read thus.. “Rich people will travel great distances to look at poor people...” — David Byrne"

"Nurse Ratched 1:24 Wed Jan 15 It has an impact, not the sole cause. If you're constantly pumped with negative information and you do not have the capability to deal with it, it can cause anxiety/depression. Take a look at Greta the climate nut job, she's a jibbering mess because of the shit peddled by the media about climate change. I bet she's one of many."

"Nurse Ratched 1:24 Wed Jan 15 It has an impact, not the sole cause. If you're constantly pumped with negative information and you do not have the capability to deal with it, it can cause anxiety/depression. Take a look at Greta the climate nut job, she's a jibbering mess because of the shit peddled by the media about climate change. I bet she's one of many."

"People with less material shit to deal with are the ones who are generally a lot happier. Went to Bali, people didn't have a pot to piss in. Happiest people I've ever met."

"Is depression a 1st world problem ? Come to the back streets of Agra/Delhi/Bangalore to see people with nothing just getting on with life. Be thankful with what you have , not what you have not. “Rich people will spend a lot of money to look at poor people” David Byrne,"

"Who had Willtell in the ""worst possible take"" sweepstake?"

"Personally depression doesn't exist. Too busy I guess. I therefore have a problem acknowledging that others get depressed. For me people can be more prone to suffer depression but almost always I observe that it is down to their life lacking direction. Family break-downs, boring job, constant bad news in media of one disaster after another and global disintegration etc... All nothing to get depressed about if your too busy doing other things..."

Nursey... Bolty is an expert on everything... especially fruits...

"Ah, you mean other people, not you. Look, I'm not intending to be aggressive or needlessly argumentative about this, but do you have firm evidence that negative world news is a major cause of depression?"

Council Scum 1:12 Wed Jan 15 Spot on

"I select issued to research based upon whether I'm interested in them or not, for example politics. There's a lot of negative stuff around brexit so I research up and take interest in it. However it doesn't cause me personally to suffer. The point is, because of the negativity people have become very anxious/depressed because all they do is focus on negatives in life."

"Forgot to add also I have also realised that the news is all agenda based bullshit, so I personally take it with a pinch of salt. But there are people out there who get very overwhelmed by what they read/watch/hear."