A Very Small Amount of Data is Enough:

When I am anxious about something I check-in with my body so see where the anxiety manifests and then seek to relax and let go tension.

I developed a code for social media with regard to politically negative posts and an absence of civility. I don't respond unless there is positive action I can make in the world as a result of my participation with the post.

While I receive News Alerts from the Washington Post. I read the first line in my email feed and decide if its in my best interest to know more. Most of the time its not. I move on.

Kate Morgan, I found your title to be click-bait and decided to comment without reading your piece, though I confess I read a snippet of it where I went to find the comment opener and scanned the rest. I surmised that your piece is a warning about doomscrolling with scientific evidence to back it up. Common sense tells me that if I surround my self with doom that's what I'll see and become addicted to it - a downqward spiral into paranoia and depression perhaps.

When I was a kid in the 60s I asked my dad why the news media didn't suggest solutions to the negativity they were broadcasting. He didn't know. But I did, I just didn't know how to implement it for everyone, just me.

My philosophy of life is to "know" I'm okay no matter what. Of course at times I experience anxiety, fears, happiness, grief and so on. My meditation practice for over 45 years has helped. It has helped me engage with others for positive solutions.

The internet while useful, as long as I remember my core principles, it is a glut of too much information. Here are a few questions that I can ask myself in any situation:

Who am I? (right now)

Why am I here?

What do I want?

How am I going to get what I want?

Where am I going?

How will I get there?