Get off your phone. Get off the news. They're doing nothing for you. Jump in some cold water. Feel reality for what it is. Don't use any products that simulate dopamine (phone, tv, video games, junk food), they're killing you from the inside.
Phones and technology are some of the only escapes left.
This is bad advice, even worse than saying use the phone more because it's dismissive of the larger issues I am facing in life. The phone isn't the thing doing the killing, it's the governments of countries like Iran, Russia, and Ukraine. There's are good and bad guys in war, but both countries experience a loss in souls.
That's also not how dopamine works.
Hnews is not different, I come here for the same dopamine hit
And I often got some valuable tools/libs out of it.
Reddit is infinite, as well as much other social media
It can also be to do with your own mental filter... HN has submissions that are both on the pessimistic doomsday side at one end and hyper over optimistic side at the other end, but orthogonally there are also purely fun submissions - and these can be quite uplifting, a happy reminder to many of us of why we originally ended up doing what we do.
I don’t think blissful ignorance is the right way to think of it. I think the news (and social media) today is the same as it’s always been. Don’t cut yourself off but don’t take any of it too seriously.
Been great for my mental health.
Mine fell in the water months ago and changed my life. Now when I close the computer and walk out the door I'm completely unplugged for a few hours (FitBit for health though of course).
I started to avoid looking at any sort of news and felt better. I know that we need to have a positive outlook, but the level of disturbances seem to get me these days. I urge you to try it out as well