Taking a break from the news can improve mental health, study finds.
Switching away from a 24/7 cycle of news — along with a healthy diet — is beneficial to mental health, a new study finds.A constant influx of bad news — pandemic, shootings, inflation, natural disasters, political turmoil — can feel, at best, soul-crushing. Now, a new study from Spain confirms the negative toll constantly being plugged into the news cycle can take.
The research will be presented this weekend at a meeting of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology in Vienna. It has not yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal. Others note that there's only so much negative news coverage a person can take before it affects their"There's an endless availability of information," said Lindsey McKernan, an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville who was not involved with the new study."Without putting the brakes on it yourself, you can just keep going and keep reading and become more stressed.
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