WW3 ?

The media only ever report on bad things. There's a lot of good in the world. Just that no one ever sees it. Every news article says WW3 this and that because they get clicks out of it. It's in no country's interests to start a World War. No one will profit, no one will win and every country wants both of those things.

That doesn't make other problems insignificant or minor. Just because there are conflicts in the world that should be taken seriously doesn't mean that the issues we are focusing on here are minor. We still need to focus on it. Just focus on what you're doing today, stay out of the news, go outside if you're able to. Just stay of the news and all newspaper outlets. They are no good for mental health and they all stir the same pot for money to be made.

Bad news profits, good news doesn't, hence why we only get bad news. I have Anxiety myself and other mental illnesses and I've gone done a spiral with WW3 nonsense so many times where I couldn't leave the house, couldn't sleep, eat, drink or anything so I get the stress that these topics can cause. You can't control what happens in the world but you can control how much news that you consume (which is all doom, gloom and pot-stirring that results in nothing happening).

I'm on a Facebook group where they debunk a lot of this stuff called Doomsday Debunked and they really know their stuff and put everyone's bad thoughts into perspective. They've helped me a lot to be able to get out of that spiral I was in to be able to live my life again. Just give them a read through or something. So many people on there, pretty much every post, is asking the same thing that you are and there are people debunking them in the comments. The owner of the group has his own blog posts.

We are not the closest to WW3 that we've been in, I'd say we're not even close to that. Just turn off the news for a week or 2, focus on today and do something you enjoy whatever that may be. I do want to end this by saying that I know I can't change your mind or beliefs on the topic, or any topic for the matter and nor would I want to. If me posting this comment doesn't do anything for you then I apologise. If it has helped or had a positive outcome for you then I'm glad I could help.

If I honestly had £1 for every time the WW3 word was used in the news, I'd be the richest guy on this amazing planet.

Neither of my daughters are going to have children, and I am glad for it quite frankly.

There is the fact that if they had a son, he very well might have MD like me, or even more severe, but that is not their only reason; the climate emergency, never ending wars etc play a part.

I understand; my reasons for not having wanted to bring children into the world. I'm not oblivious to the goodness of so many - I like to think the majority - but sadly, I see exactly where it's going.

I can understand people who do bury their heads in the sand (especially if it's to protect their mental wellbeing) but it's not for me. I personally just don't like to feel complicit by my silence; a silent onlooker I won't be, I believe that those who can speak out, should and have a responsibility to our fellow humans to do so.

There's a quote, I think it's... the only thing necessary for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing.

BTW, my comment earlier about 'too little too late', I don't mean about getting the aid into Gaza, more about getting peace in the the wider region. They should get the aid in and stop the atrocities we're seeing before our eyes of starvation and the inhumanity. I'm glad to see the tiny little starving girl, Siwar, had been evacuated out to Jordan.

Yes that is important however there is a difference between staying up to date with world events and consuming bad news constantly. The media get paid from bad news. Some outlets are quite good in remaining somewhat neutral or honest. Newspapers like The Guardian, The Sun, Daily Mail and all those ones are so dishonest.

If it's consuming news through news channels like BBC news, ITV and actual channels like that, I'd be more inclined to follow it.

I don't bury my head in the sand, I just go to sources that are more honest than others (of course not entirely unbiased, no newspaper is unbiased) but as you say, it's unhealthy to spiral. When there's topics like WW3, it is so easy for people like me to spiral so far down mentally as I obsess and would not be able to do anything when stressed about matters like these. However, I'm now on top of that after learning that the hard way with my own mental health and I have my own rules I have to follow for the sake of just staying sane. I'm not denying that there are very real issues in the world, of course there are. But when people talk about WW3, they often think of conventional or even nuclear war. Nuclear weapons and the threats of their use are a deterrence and it is in no-one's interests, not even the crazy higher-ups to use them. Trade wars and cyber attacks, I mean I wouldn't rule out but definitely not in the use of conventional or nuclear war at this point in time.

We can't control matters like these and that's pretty much what every human wants to do. Control is something in our nature. If we have no control then it's like a threat to us where we have to be cautious.

I just see the same pattern too. Every week, it is the same thinly-veiled threats of "x country needs to prepare for WW3, everyone should prepare". Preparation is great but you're most likely going to be preparing for a thunderstorm, flood or other issues we get.

The main thing I'm trying to say is just know the source of the information. There's websites where you can see how biased and factual your media outlets are.

Sorry if my message came across as patronising by the way. I've had people across various social media forums say my writing comes across as patronising, I don't intend on my message sounding that way. I just write weirdly I think.

I don't watch or read the news. It's not sticking my head in the sand, it's because the news now is an utter dirge of sensationalist horse-s%#t.

We have to have hope @Catherine21. I can remember feeling despair, as did tens of thousands of others, in my teens when I was a member of CND and the cruise missiles were being sited at Greenham Common in Berkshire. My dad was really strict and wouldn't let me go and protest 🤨🙄 (I should have just gone 🫠😅).

My point being, I wouldn't have imagined then the Treaty that was signed by Reagan and Gorbachov removing the long range missiles by the late 80s/early 90s and the closure of the base; the end of the Cold War or the reunification of Germany.

I just struggle to think of any leaders at the moment who will work towards de-escalation in the Middle East. Maybe it will take other Middle Eastern countries who are more moderate. But I try and keep hope, for all of us but especially for the younger generations. You take care Catherine 🫂.

Heat? Lol, been pouring down all day where I am, had thunder too. Was nice yesterday though.