I guess I feel pressured to finally do this but I engage politically in a limited manner on social media due to what its led to in the past. this is entirely separate from what I use to inform myself on what is going on around the world, and my actions I'm doing irl about it.
when covid happened, I fell under the mentality that avoiding any information anywhere about it was unfair to those mostly unaffected by it. in the end, I was hospitalized for 10 days. I developed psychosis where I was harming myself and scaring my loved ones with my enraged ruminating. every second of every day I was consumed with death, to the point I was too immobilized with stress to finish the semester or closely care about my loved ones. I got the point I was hospitalized because I was so psychotic I was doing things like eating wax to be able to fly, and I believed it was fine if I died to help others like that.
my overall point being that after all of that, I was advised by several mental health professionals to be more mindful with how I consumed news. I cannot study to change educational policy, volunteer, pollwork, or inform my loved ones if I'm so sick from information overload. so thats why I blacklist terms, and do not think it is unfair. It may be selfish, and privileged, but I find it most important to use my place in the way I can most effectively assist others. for me, I do more outside social media, when I engage with information critically online.
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