I can tell I'm starting to scrupulosity spiral

and I feel bad

because I have friends there

but I feel like I come away feeling ground down

tumblr is such a scrupulosity hellscape is the thing

yeah

I don't want to...curl up in an echo chamber and ignore the real world

but I do also want to get out of bed in the morning

yeah that is definitely a thing about it

see prioritizing your own mental health is not in fact curling up in an echo chamber it's just. turning off some of the horrifying firehose of information for your own sanity

I say as a person who avoids as much news and other upsetting information as possible because it is simply not worth being upset about things I cannot affect in any way

there is no moral good in knowing about a thing to be upset about it, I inform myself

pikuach nefesh <3

yeah, same - a lot of the time I have to be careful about how much news I take in because like. I do not have the mental fortitude to be hooked into the news stream 24/7

this is half of why tumblr is only usable to me if I've used tumblr savior to cut things down to like one third of the posts, that way I have to go manually opt into seeing certain news/etc

but man I feel you....

it's just a general tone of downerness even with that

yeah, no, fair

I like seeing your posts, but yeah, if it makes you feel bad that’s a good sign to do it less

i had to take a very long break from twitter because i could not handle Everything Happening Continuously while my home life exploded proverbially

so i get it

yeah ok this is not good I just end up. learning more things that are wrong or bad.

some of which are 100% opinions

but

yeah i havent gone onto my tumblr feed in nearly a month now

i probably should have stopped sooner! it kind of saps away at you!

I don't want to lose track of my friends there who are going thru it

but also I keep feeling worse

honestly yeah. i have basically dropped social media for the most part especially since most of my friends are here so