To protect the psyche with a large stream of disturbing news, setting a limit on reading the news feed and switching your attention to positive areas of life will help. He spoke about this on March 7 channel five psychologist Philip Litvinenko.
“Any negative information always increases stress, raises cortisol. And in general, there is nothing to worry about if it does not last long. If it lasts a long time, massively, and negative information comes in a wide front from all sides, it literally puts pressure on us, ”said the psychologist.
The expert noted that stress contributes to a decrease in immunity, and this leads to serious health problems. Sometimes, according to the psychologist, these consequences are irreversible.
“Some people whose mentality is not stable can really go crazy. Those whose psyches are more stable and withstand all this, nevertheless, are still injured, and this affects our thinking, our behavior, our states, our emotions, and even, as a result, our health, ” Litvinenko noted.
Watching a positive movie, favorite food, pleasant hobbies and spending time with friends will help you get distracted from the flow of disturbing news. According to the specialist, these seemingly ordinary things will help you get distracted from external stimuli and tune in to a more positive mood.
“This is very difficult, because the zones in the cerebral cortex associated with stress, with negativity, with survival, are eight times stronger than the zones associated with positive,” he said.
On March 4, psychologist Anastasia Nikolaeva named the symptoms of anxiety and told how to deal with them. According to her, the symptoms that you should pay attention to are: internal discomfort or a feeling that will make you do rash things. The latter can take up to 60% of the time and be accompanied by headaches.
The specialist also advises that you need to limit the flow of negative information and not open the media before going to bed. Another important aspect is filtering the negatives from the positives. It is important to remember all the good things that happened during the day, the psychologist noted.
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