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View submission: Tuesday Check In: How's Everybody's Mental Health?
I'm frustrated. I hate how we're in this era where you can't divorce yourself from politics without immense effort. Politics are in my sports subs. They are on my movie subs. Everywhere I look all I see is that man or people fighting about that man and I just feel the anxiety and the stress coming back. None of it is productive. It's just people screaming. I get some people seem to enjoy this type of politics but it makes me miserable. On top of that I'm trying to finish my PhD and I'm so burnt out that it ain't funny. Last night I went walking in the snow (as it snowed/iced in Florida) and I felt a measure of organic glee which was a first in months.
I'm really trying to cut political consumption (news, reddit, etc.) way down. It honestly just doesn't feel healthy for me at this point. I want to improve myself rather than wallow in a toxic sludge of outrage news that is solely designed to drag eyeballs. My goal, especially with my PhD is wrapping up, is to begin improving myself. Part of that is getting back into doing things that break me away from my laptop and surfing. The first thing I've added to my life is being intentional about watching TV shows/movies.
There's nothing here!