Dealing with the Stress

 As I alluded to in my previous blog post, reading the news in a time like this is stressful. Letting those fears consume you is not good for your mental health. Because of the raised stakes creating all this stress, you can have an impulse to simply avoid the news outright. To avoid this, you should try and limit your personal investment in any one debate. By detaching yourself from some of the negative emotions you experience, you are better prepared to think about politics. Thinking logically about a big picture can be a lot less stressful. With this, I would say that you should make a hard divide between when you are and aren’t thinking about politics. When you can’t stop thinking about how angry something makes you, or how awful something is, the negativity builds up. You should try and keep these thoughts within their own “bubble.”