JWeinCom on 22 January 2018
| spurgeonryan said: Starting by never watching any news. If I see it here that is the extent of my news knowledge. Because.... What am I going to do about any of it? It happens it happens. Shootings, hurricanes, Wars, etc. Later on when some charity at Costco is asking for money I will find out and gladly give. It is something that I feel keeps me from ever getting depressed. Don't even know the feeling. Besides here I know little about most major world events and I don't care. Just don't care. That is step one. Care about the people around you and who you know first. Then try to take care of the world second. |
You're confusing depression with sadness. Watching world news can make you sad or upset, but rarely truly depressed.
Sadness is a realistic reaction to something negative that has happened. I.e. my dog died and I'll miss him, and I feel like crying.
Depression is a distorted reaction to something negative that has happened, usually involving negative thoughts targeted at oneself. I.e. my dog died, and I'll never be happy again, and my dog was the only creature in the world that actually cared about me, and now I have no reason to live, and I'm worthless.
Or it could just be all that negative thinking without a dead dog or any actual trigger.
