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Comment by harry8 | Hacker News Reader

Off topic but relevant:

There are times reading the news can be one hit after another to your mental health. Do please be sensible about reading all this stuff. Read when feeling mentally robust, possibly in the morning. Don't be afraid to just take a break from news for a period of days or longer.

There's a lot happening, ensure looking after yourself is one of those things.

edit: I found those pictures of all those dead elephants unexpectedly upsetting. Unlike all the upsetting news that one is expecting to be so and is around now.

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Misery transcends known laws of matter in that it can be replicated endlessly. Our soul is really not designed to consume the most extreme and tragic occurrences of events around the world, the vast majority of which we have absolutely nothing to do with even if we tried. There is no "preservation of misery" like with thermodynamics - you can be miserable then spread it around and make many more people miserable, while not making yourself any less so.

Think about politics for example - how much have you been personally preoccupied with a certain political turmoil vs how much effect it had on your own life or the lives of those around you - or even your community. Only in the rarest of extremes does politics get directly to your doorstep.

Does it mean you don't need to be involved or care? Not at all, but focus on your surroundings more.

I didn't expect this kind of comment here, but I really appreciate that you left it.

I also was hit pretty hard by reading this article. There are a lot of very detailed pictures, and a lot of dead elephants, it's really tragic.

I posted the article. I'm sorry it caused you distress. The dead elephants are really not a pretty sight, I guess it's fair they should come with a big warning.

You should not be sorry. Thank you for posting it.

Thanks for writing the wraning comment.

Agree with the other commenter - thanks for your sentiment - this kind of thing hurts to see, but it should be seen.

Also, I think their point was that this kind of thing just hits a lot harder given the generally negative tone of the world around a lot of us.

Thank you for writing this comment, last couple of weeks/months haven’t been easy by any stretch. I’m glad I saw your comment before clicking on TFA, it could have very well sent me down a dark spiral.

As I'm fond of saying: Mental & emotional health is way more valuable than being informed, in my uninformed opinion.

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