I have not watched any news or cable since Tuesday and I feel

[Tribetime]

Pretty good considering...I'm not going to let this defeat me..I may lose my health insurance since I got cancer but I will never let maga take my happiness I will always look for what I can be thankful for that I am so much more blessed than millions and millions who are much much more worse off than me.

[Woodwizard]

1. I did the same

Actually stopped a few weeks before the election, everything is a horse race for clicks and ratings.

Been going on long bike rides. And working in my shop listening to music. I don't need rehashing of it all.

Just kind of numb.

[doc03]

2. I never watched any of the election news. I found out Trump had won as I expected at 6 am

Wednesday. I figured it was over after we didn't get any bounce out of the convention. It just had the feeling of 2016.
I have watched less than 1 hour total of news this week. It is just the same old bullshit. They trot out one analyst
after another and everyone has a different reason for us losing.

[littlemissmartypants]

14. The autopsy shouldn't be worse than the murder. ...

But here we are.

❤️

[BigDemVoter]

3. Same here

Am on vacation & will disconnect cable upon my return.

[Susan Calvin]

4. I am trying very hard to emulate your attitude.

I do it better some days than others.

[chouchou]

5. Your post is touching and sweet.

[Hassler]

6. Peace and every good dealing with your situation

[33taw]

7. I cancelled my SlingTV subscription about 5 minutes ago. I only used it for news. I am done with all MSM.

[lucca18]

8. I I tried to watch some news, but it was just too much.

It's so unbelievable what happened, and so sad for everyone.
Please take care of yourself.

[ailsagirl]

9. ...

[MontanaMama]

10. Haven't watched MSM for weeks

other than election night. There’s no benefit to watching now. It’s all BS.

[yellowdogintexas]

11. I spent most of the day binge watching Law and Order & L&O SVU

It felt really good

[littlemissmartypants]

13. Always a good choice! We should have watch parties! 👍

❤️

[littlemissmartypants]

12. ❤️

[Blue_Roses]

15. Me too!

[Yavin4]

16. Life is too short and beautiful to be anxious and angry all of the time. n/t

[Silver Gaia]

17. We have been MSNBC addicts way back to the Olbermann years

in the early 2000s. We turned it off Tuesday night and back on briefly the next day to hear Kamala speak. That's it.

I'm tired, exhausted of Trump 24/7. So is my hubby. And our daughter. And that's all it has been. Even here on DU, which I think of as my "home" on the internet, there has just been too much focus on whatever his latest outrage is or was, and not enough on what is right and good about us and our people. I don't mean that as a disrespect, just a realization. I mean, I did it, too. I think we all just hoped we'd wake up one day, tune in to news or load up DU, and learn that he was arrested and jailed, or maybe even dead. It was an obsession. And I have to let that go. My family has to let that go.

I have to focus and center myself now on simple joys, kindness, and working and sharing with others toward shared goals. I see myself now as having been consumed by the darkness emanating from that sociopath. I need it to be cleansed from my system.

So that means not watching news, no more MSNBC, which I have loved. I am still here on DU, and have no plans to leave, but I am careful what I click on.

I doubt I will feel this way forever. It's a healing process. And I know I am not "done," either. (My paperclip attests to that.) But I am breathing, and healing, and regrouping. For now.