How are you ASD people handling seeing the images of starving children and infants? It makes me want to die. Ive been struggling with selfinjury lately. But seeing the pictures of these kids dying in real time in their moms arms is too much
How are you ASD people handling seeing the images of starving children and infants? It makes me want to die. Ive been struggling with selfinjury lately. But seeing the pictures of these kids dying in real time in their moms arms is too much
I don’t.
At some point I realized there’s infinite awesome and infinite cruel things on the Internet, and people usually wanna show you the cruel stuff because it makes money / keeps anxious.
But you don’t need to fix the whole world at once and no one can fight the alligators when standing in the swamp.
So I don’t, I only get news from friends +& family and otherwise I focus on productive things on he Internet, like nature documentaries, science, entertainment and learning things like coding or philosophy. I know this sounds ignorant but I know this is the state where I am most valuable to myself and therefore all the people around me, so that’s how I wanna live.
Now everyone has to find their own threshold of cruelty they can take on a day-to-day basis, but usually if you care about your mental health you should set a limit, only watch some of it. Rarely can people watch cruel things daily and not get PTSD, which is pertinent for jobs like EMT or the military.
To this I want to add personally, death is a normal part of life. If it’s because of old age or humans killing each other doesn’t make incredibly much of a difference to me. As long as life existed there was death & suffering. Of course I’m against unnecessary death & suffering. But I’m asking myself, why would I myself add to the suffering by suffering when I see others suffer and I can only very barely help them?