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One week in August I found myself waking up almost daily with a racing heart at 3am. I would bolt awake, heart racing, thoughts whirling, my head filled with apocalyptic possibilities.
After many days of this, I got up one sleepless morning, opened my laptop and destroyed my access to the news.
"Destroy'' may be an overdramatic way of describing what I did, but it truly felt like it. A "nuke" option after months of failing to manage a healthier information diet. It was an admission of defeat.
Watching the news was slowly destroying my mental health and I couldn't outwit the clickbaits or algorithms. I had to build a Great Wall against a horde that cannot be stopped or reasoned with.
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