I have experienced the "Bad News Blues" from my local news, because of a tragedy that happened locally that saddened me. As far as national news or anything news related on social media I have never been left with the "Bad News Blues." Why I was left with the "Bad News Blues" was because of a wreck that 2 of my friends were involved in. The wreck involved 4 people, 3 of the 4 didn't make it out. So seeing it on the news you can conclude that I had the Bad News Blues. Also a fatal wreck that was on the local news, involved my football coach that had an impact on many not just through football. When I seen the news, the Bad News Blues would be a/an understatement. I could relate to the article "Earthquakes! Fires! Shootings! Storms! How Tech Can Help Ease 'Disaster Fatigue'," by Jennifer Jolly in the NYT when it stated "One of the first things I do every morning when I wake up is check the latest news on my smartphone." When I wake up I check the notifications from ESPN news and the local news on my phone.
I have never experienced “disaster fatigue” or “bad news blues”, I have never experienced these things because in my house we don’t watch the news. Usually when I know something that happened it’s from my grandparents or people at school.
I do have some tips and advice for people who struggle with the “bad news blues”. For all the people who struggle with this situation in their lives I would suggest being on your phone and social media less. If you have a social media account that you have barely used in the last year why not just delete it it will be one less thing to worry about. I think my idea will help because it will be one less thing to worry about and that will lead to lower stress levels in your average day.
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One week before I read a news on my Facebook news feed about a 19 years old boy who committed suicide. Before suicide the boy wrote a suicidal note on Facebook. One of my Facebook friends was his friend, my friend shared his status. I felt extremely sad and become depressed after reading his heart broken suicidal note. He committed suicide because he faded up with this competitive education system and he felt that he could not fulfill his parents expectation. I could not sleep that whole night. If the boy could share his mental pressure with his parents or friends, he might not get suicide. In 21st century we become apart from each other mentally, we hardly find anyone around us to share our feelings. Everyone is busy to live his life. As a result, the tendency of suicide is increasing specially among the young generation. We need to improve our mental relation with family, friends and share feelings with them. Sharing reduces pain and pressure and help to make good decision.
I hear bad news almost every day, and some of this bad news makes me fell down. In my case I don’t like to read or hear bad news, because I depressed about it. The hurricane Maria that passed in Puerto Rico it was so bad. Everybody was impacted by this issue. I didn’t want to read the newspaper and didn’t turn on the tv, because everybody talked about the hurricane. Maria affected almost a whole country, leaving people without their houses, without light for several time. But they can survive of this disaster.
In New York I have seen a lot of shooting guns and people that have killed died every day. When I wake up when I check the news, I see a lot disappearing children and some people who are suffering in the hospital. Innocent people have been killed for no reasons. I feel scared when I heard bad news. Every day it can happen to anyone, who knows? Every day people feel helpless and frightens. I wish the City was more save and sounds. I wish all the world would be better one day.
I remember couples of years ago when I was 13 years old. I was setting in the living room crying and my mom asked me why I was crying and I told her ‘‘I was worried about the world because it’s not how I imagine or how I want it to be.’’ I said. Also I said to my mother ‘‘I don’t like to hear or watch the news because every time I watched the news there was something terrible.’’ I was very concerned about the action that human did and still doing. I was a little girl afraid of the world where I was living and I still afraid. I had too many question and my mother couldn’t give me the answers. One of those question was why the people can’t be good people? we should respect everyone’s life and opinions’’ I said. My mother told at some moment when she was my age she felt the same, but we need to know what is happening in the world. Today I’m 18 years old and I don’t have answer to all my question, I don’t understand the actions of the people yet, I still crying sometimes when I watch the news and I don’t like to read the newspaper. During five years I have been trying to find the way to relief the pain I feel when I hear bad news, but I couldn’t found it. Some people may not understand my reaction, but the reason why I’m very sensible is because I’m a young woman in a society where those who are supposed to protected you don’t do it and women are put to left side and our voice are countless, making us a vulnerable point for those who have no feelings.
Every day, we hear a lots of news that happen in the world. Some of them are worse than others, but it happened. Sometimes this news makes me feel bad because that kind of news can happen near from me or someone that I know. It is terrible when you wake up and turn on the TV and see what happened hours ago. I know these things happen in the world, but when I see or hear them make feel debated. For example, we usually see on the TV someone’s trying to kill women, children, men on the streets, concerts, and schools, too. That’s terrible.
Throughout the world each an everyone experience “bad news blue”. I have experienced many bad news until now. For example, social media, news, has been very difficult to watch something. Sometimes I shut the TV and I put away my phone so I can relax myself. There is no good news and it also make me feel sad faster I could imagine. Therefore, I always try to watch something funny because no one wants to be unhappy after a whole day working. If we try we can overcome ‘bad news blues”.
In the world. everyone has bad news blues. When you get bad news blues did you ever feel extremely sad or ever depressed after reading or hearing the news? `when I was a kid, I had a dog and we had a good relationship. I loved it. One day, it died when I was in school. My parents kept hiding me in order not to make me sorrowful. When I came home from my vacation and knew the news. My first reaction was not to sad, but can’t believe the news is really. I lost my companion. I felt extremely sad from separation. This matter has deep influence of me. I have refused to dog for a long time. Until I picked up a stray dog, and I decided to go with the dog. Everyone has to get bad news blues, and needs to forget the bad news
When we read about something happened in the world and how many people are killed other people make me crazy and angry more than sad, because I cannot understand how them can make too much damage. The whole world is worried about what happened but nobody makes something to try to change the violence, and on the contrary they respond with more violence and this is why the problems increase.
One of the first things I do every morning when I wake up is check the news in the tv with my sister and nephew. We both wake up at the same time at 5 am for take a cup of tea sometimes coffee and etc. In the last few months in my country ‘the Dominican Republic’’ was one of the part of the Caribbean country’s that was mark in red because of the hurricanes, a lot of people die. Such as children, animals and people.
Also they looses they houses and a lot stuff more. That’s why it is important to me and everyone watch the news every morning because is helpful for us to see what is happening around the world and near to ours jobs and your children schools. Also in the news you can watch the weather that is another important Thing for us to watch the news and the weather. Remember is a lot of new technology in the world and we can watch it everywhere.
In my opinion The Bad News Blues affects everyone in different ways. At this time, there’re so many struggles in the world every day when you wake up hear and see on TV things that are not normal. For example, this afternoon 10 people died in a terrorist attack in Manhattan, or there was another slaughter in Vegas 50 people died. This events affects the majority of us because everyone appreciates their life. Nobody wants to die, so when we see this news it makes us feel sad and angry we never know when this thing is going to happen.
I have not ever experienced “disaster fatigue.” However, I know a lot about the “bad news blues.” In modern society, many people have anxiety disorders. My friend, Michael, is an example. He has always complained about society and worried that the world will be in chaos every day. Too many bad news haunted him and his drinking had got out of hand. The problem of alcoholism was, and still is, often underplayed. Too much drinking is bad for your health. Generally speaking, people with depression have a habit of drinking because of a lot of bad news. Most air rage incidents involve heavy drinking. I am reasonably fit, played a lot of tennis, and don’t drink to excess. I'm full of confidence in my life, so world chaos doesn’t scare me too much. From another point of view, disaster is the ladder of human progress. Some of disasters might make people reflect and improve the social system or rules. Even if there's a disaster, responsibility is for the leaders of the world. As civilians, we don’t need to feel alarmed.
@Bin 4D You say "responsibility is for the leaders of the world. As civilians, we don't need to feel alarmed". I would guess that you are young .... and probably busily forcused on YOUR life. I don't condemn that ; in fact that is how I felt until the age of 45 or so. I don't put much faith in today's leaders of the world. I've paid attention long enough to realize that blind faith without concern is PASSIVISM. My point ----> take a closer look at the powers-that-be today. Persons with critical thinking have every reason to mistrust them now. And yet, how to we process our concern AND keep going about our daily business when it ultimately does affect us individually ?
Every single day I watch news or read some articles through the internet. In the news there is always something bad happens every day. However, sometimes there is extremely bad news that makes me so sad. Recently in Las Vegas a white man had shoot about 900 people, 428 people were killed and rest of the people were injured. I felt so bad because those people were innocent and they never knew it’s going to happen to them. Even though, every single people had aim about their life, work, family and etc. But everything had destroy in their lives. There wasn’t any clear evidence that why the guy was shoot those people.
I have ever experimented “disaster fatigue” many times. In my original country there have been different disasters that I have felt very sad. Since I arrived to this country, several very strong catastrophes have happened in Colombia and that has affected me because I have family that have been victims. Last year a river broke out and overflowed, also damaged many houses, one of them was my cousin who lived with his children and his wife. They lost everything and it was very sad for me. They are living with their relatives, but it has not been easy to have their house back.
In the world we live today, we constantly see horrible things. Much worse to receive bad news through the written word than by somebody simply telling you. When somebody simply tells you bad news, you hear it once, and that’s the end of it. But when bad news is written down, whether in a letter or a newspaper each time you read it, you feel as if you are receiving the bad news again and again. It’s easy for this bad news to put you into a state of depression, and causes your day to take for the worse. Despite some news articles focusing on acts of kindness and feel good stories, there is an overwhelming amount of news articles that will shock and sadness.
I actually don’t watch or read news. I often hear things from people which makes me feel terrible and sometimes scary too. That’s why I avoid watching these horrible things. Whenever I hear bad news, it makes me feel down. I regret for what bad things happen to people, but we can’t do anything, and have to move on. There are many ways to combat “bad news blues”. In order to combat bad news, I watch YouTube, listen music what I enjoy. Also I chat with my cousins, do something that keeps me busy to forget those things. “Bad news blues” can make anyone depressed and make their day worse. Sometimes forgetting bad news is hard and it causes people not to concentrate on what they are doing, so I think that avoiding these things is better.
Every day in the news we find very sad news that goes around the world. When we see the news it seems that all that information is full of tragedies, murders, violence. It's really hard to start a good day watching those bad news, because they fill us with negativity in our mind. For example, my mother has problems in her nervous system and anything negative alters her physical health to the point of having to consult her doctor. She likes to watch to the news while she takes her breakfast so she is full of concern for everything she watches so now she is trying to watch her news only once a week and a different hour. I believe that when we start the day watching to negative news, this fills us with a lot of negativity.
Is important for us to know the news, but especially because we are living in the USA. This year we have many disasters in Las Vegas, hurricane in Florida, and the massacre in Texas, is important for us that the news tell us what is going on around the world. Many times the news are supposed to tell everything but unfortunately they don’t like to tell us all the truth. Many times the news are good but unfortunately a lot of them are bad and it is uncomfortable because I can’t do anything, for example when I looked disasters in another countries or even in the united states.
News is very important in the society because these keep the human being aware of everything that happens around the world. Some news is more harmful than other, and even knowing that they can surprise and scare us, they keep us informed in every moment about an accident or catastrophe that has happened. The society needs to be informed because it gives us a vision of everything that is happening in the world and keeps us alert of the reality of this. To give an example, I have been living in the United States for more than 1 year. In my country pass a lots thing that I even cannot believe, but for me it’s important to know what is happening over there, because in this way I can be alert and informed about my country.
I was feeling very affect with some news about my country because I am so far, and I cannot help my family and friends. For example, in this moment my country is passing for terrible things like violence, and some attacks of terrorist’s people. I do not like to know that my country has a lot of problems because it is unfortunately we do not have a good government. The president of my country has allowed that everyday Colombia become dangerous and people cannot be calm without think that something bad can happen. I know that we are in danger anywhere, but in my country anybody does not nothing for stop that.
We Constantly hear news from different places of the world. this news is able to contribute to our mood. There are different things that happen in the world war, famine and others problems, but how we can react to all these problems. I don’t believe if just thinking something bad happen, but I believe that if we allow that only bad news comes to our lives, it can affect our lives negatively. In my experience I prefer to start my day with a cut of coffee and talk with my parents about what we want to do. After breakfast I like to read news in my smartphone, but I choose a good news or something interesting for me because I want that first thing that read to help me or relax me
I have a lot of experience with “The Bad News Blues”. Every day I like to know what is happening in the world, so I update my phone with daily news. Whenever my phone sends an alert anytime during the day for example the Las Vegas shooting, 58 dead and more than 500 injured. I experienced “The Bad News Blues” and it affected my mind. I felt extremely sad and even depressed after reading or hearing the news. I think we want to fight sadness and anxiety. Because no one can help us but ourselves. We need to learn how to fight with our mind because we are all capable of doing it. In addition, I don’t have time to think about it all the time because I have other things to do. As a reader our responsibility is to own the bad news and to handle it.
The first thing that I do when I wake up, is to check my phone so, every day the first thing that I see is many news about the world. Some of this news are good, some are bad. When I see this bad news, I feel so bad because I can’t do anything to help especially when that new happens away from me. I can feel how my day gets worse when this happen, I totally agree about that, if you see bad news when you just get up your mood can be sad or depressive.
I believe that everyone has, at some point, experience "bad news blues". Anyone who views bad situations happening in communities outside their own can experience a certain helplessness in being unable to help, which ultimately leads to sadness. I believe that the best way to remedy this is to realize that while the unfortunate events always seem to take the headlines, there are happy things happening all around us. If people notice the positive events happening in communities, as well as the sad, we may be able to combat the "bad news blues". The important thing to remember is to do what makes you the happiest and to do what you can to ensure the happiness of others.
In my opinion, everyone has experienced the "bad news blues" because with all of the technology we have today, it is hard to ignore the news in the world today. Every morning, like Jennifer Jolly, I check my phone and then look up the current news. Although I see all different kinds of news throughout the day, the news that affects me most is when it involves the elderly or animals. These affect me because most times, the elderly and animals are helpless towards what happens to them, so it is really sad.
When I see bad news, I try to either look at happy news or do activities, such as playing sports, to keep my mind off of it. For others, I would recommend partaking in what makes you happy or spending time with other people when you are feeling in the "blue". Overall, if after viewing upsetting news, you continue to stay positive, that'll lead you to happiness.
I have experienced "bad news blues". In the world we live today we constantly see horrible and catastrophic occurrences. The recurring shootings are my "bad news blues". Whenever I hear another shooting has occurred, it just makes me feel awful to know that someone is capable of commuting such a devastating crime.
The things I do to reduce the effect of the overwhelming bad news are drawing, writing or listening to music. Drawing and writing helps me put the thoughts in my head onto a piece of paper. I just wish there was not so much calamity in our world.
As Dr. McNaughton-Cassill says, having the “bad new blues” is completely normal. Not only do multitudes of people check their phone every day for the news but the suicide and anxiety rates are quickly increasing. I wonder why. The author uses statistics to create a logical appeal. She desires for the audience to truly understand how the “bad news blues” is affecting them individually but also as a society. Constantly watching the news for updates is an unproductive way of spending your time. I have experienced “the bad news blues” scaring myself by creating ridiculous scenarios in my head. As a community, we can’t continue to damage our inner psyches or our physical beings. We have to remind ourselves that we’re still here unlike those Las Vegas victims and unlike the victims in the Texas shooting. We need to step out of “disaster fatigue” and be grateful. Being grateful for your life can push you to strive for better or help you be thankful for what you already have. Some might say, “how can we cut out negativity if the news shows people dying every 5 minutes?” I say, you could either not watch it or think about the good things in the world. What about babies being born? What about the new discoveries in disease and medicine? What about the increasing pride of LGBTQ community? What about developments in education? There are so many good things happening in the world, why not focus on those rather than the negatives?
My first major experience with "disaster fatigue" happened earlier this year in May, when reports of the Manchester incident were flooding the news. I was in complete shock that innocent concertgoers could be targeted in a horrific act of violence. After I read every article, filled with death statistics and suspect motives, I felt helpless and empty.
There are many ways to combat "bad news blues". I listen to music that I enjoy, or music that calms me down. Music doesn't make me forget what I read, but it temporarily keeps the bad thoughts away. In addition to listening to music, sitting down for dinner with my family and talking about our day places me back into my reality, where I have so many people, places, and things to appreciate. If we move forward in our lives, treat ourselves with the things that we love, and communicate with others, we can overcome the "bad news blues".
I often experience “the bad news blues”. In the 21st century with the world we live in nowadays, we are constantly experiencing numbing tragedies that the news stations often tend to report with great detail. Such events could be natural disasters, terrorism, mass shootings, and various other crimes. It seems as though every day when you turn on the news, any news station, they’re reporting on the very worst humanity can offer, or conversing on how hurricanes have torn apart countries at the seams. The “bad news blues” are incredibly easy to contract, seeing as if you turn on your television twice in a week and the news anchors are discussing an act of terrorism, it’s quite easy for this bad news to put you into a state of depression, and cause your day to take a turn for the worse. Despite some news articles focusing on acts of kindness and feel good stories, there is an overwhelming amount of news articles that will shock you and incite sadness
The news, especially lately, has been so difficult to hear that I sometimes have to shut the television off or put my phone down and just take a breather. There seems to be no happy news, it's all terribly Grimm and throws me into sadness faster than I could imagine. Just the other night my father and I were watching the news during dinner I was so solemn the whole time. Not a single news story was happy or light in any way. There has recently been an outbreak of people coming forward with their sexual assault stories and though one feels happy for them that they finally found the courage to come out, it's so upsetting seeing how people treat each other. People rape and hurt one another and think they can get away with it, and in some cases they do get away with it. It makes me wonder how truly messed up is Hollywood and how many people like this are being protected? There have also been several shootings, deranged people killing others and making me too scared to leave my home. There have been issues and Puerto Rico and it's always upsetting to see people suffer, I feel like we could be doing something more. There are issues in government regarding our new president and his ideas which never cease to anger me. There are so many bad things happening and they seem to be happening all at once. It makes me feel like I'm being flooded with sadness and anger and fright, like the world is falling apart.
Whenever I see something awful/horrific on the news, I always get "disaster fatigue." When I see things like this, I normally like to go on YouTube and watch something comedic or satire to cheer me up, and it works for a while. But then I remember the news again and then it all comes back to me. So, then I simply face these news stories head on and contemplate these events in my head. I work through them so that I don't have a feeling of being down anymore. Instead, I get a feeling of understanding.
Reality strikes pretty hard when you read the news. You realize how bad things are and how terrible they can get. Sometimes it's a storm of emotions - pity as well as fear of the possibility of them happening to you.
The article offers pretty good advice on fighting the blues. Uplifter helps and so do websites like Upworthy and Sunny Skyz. I find talking to friends or family helpful, about something much lighthearted and uplifting, of course. But I don't think we should stop reading such news for the sake of avoiding the blues. It's always better to be informed than be oblivious, even at the expense of our happiness.