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Whenever you step online, you come under a constant fire of negative content about racial injustice, climate change, election controversy, mass shootings, and the list goes on.

Consuming too much of it can lead to what mental health professionals call "media saturation overload," "doomscrolling," "headline anxiety," and "headline stress disorder."

Though there is no formally recognized disorder or diagnostic criteria, many psychologists are seeing patients suffering from news-related stress.

So let's try to offset that, shall we? There's a Facebook group called 'Wholesome memes' and its 127K members are focused on just that: innocent, feel-good stuff that puts a smile on your face instead of sucking the joy out of your heart. Join us and take a look at some of their most popular posts!

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It's refreshing to see these wholesome memes. The way that news is reported and consumed has changed significantly over the last few decades. Nowadays we can hardly avoid it and many of us even actively feel the need to seek it out.

According to Graham C. L. Davey, Ph.D., who is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Sussex, UK, the modern-day tone of the news is increasingly emotive. "It's increasingly visual and shocking, and its commentaries increasingly negative and fear-laden," he wrote in Psychology Today. "It's not surprising that there is also growing evidence that negative news can affect our mental health, notably in the form of increased anxiety, depression and acute stress reactions."

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Notifications on our phones keep us in direct contact with world events regardless of what we’re doing. As Mark Deuze writes in his book Media Life, the modern world has become one in which the media are ubiquitous, pervasive and cannot be switched off, and this is also true of news, where immediate daily information about world events has become an accepted reality of everyday existence.

But a more significant impact of the digital age on news reporting, according to Professor Davey, has been the dramatic shift to visual imagery in news items, especially visual imagery contributed by the audience and garnered by journalists from social media.

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"User-generated images of important world events are now regularly captured on the smartphones of those close to or even directly involved in these events, and this new form of 'news reality' began to appear during the Asian tsunami, the 7/7 London underground bombings, and the Boston marathon bombings, developments that effectively allowed the audience to witness such events in what was virtually real-time," the psychologist explained.

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Such user-generated images permit news broadcasters to present ever more dramatic and shocking images that were either not available or not permissible in earlier times.

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For example, in news coverage of the 2015 terrorist attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris, images were made available worldwide of one of the gunmen shooting a policeman at point blank range.

Flash forward two years and television news coverage of the terrorist attack on Westminster Bridge and the Houses of Parliament did not hesitate to show graphic smartphone-captured images of the injured, the dying, and the dead

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"The news audience is now effectively being transported to the site of an event by real-time graphic images so that those watching these images become directly connected to the distressing events that are happening and the affect these events generate," Davey explained. In a way, the media no longer reports from the scene but is part of the scene and action.

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Not to mention all the articles and programmes about improbable dangers, such as being swallowed by a black hole. As Davey pointed out, they often give most credence to those supporting the Doomsday scenario, and significantly less exposure to the experts who critique them.

"Most people wouldn’t know what a black hole was even if it came straight up the toilet pan, dragged them screaming towards the singularity at the speed of light and ultimately spaghettified them. But the chances of that are very, very remote," the psychologist said.

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In today's content, there is often a lack of distinction between news and comment, especially when news outlets are cynically attempting to broadcast their own heavily angled political views, and news-as-comment is just one step away from fake news.

Winning the political argument is all that matters, it’s not important whether the information you garner to support your argument is heavily angled or even sheer delusion. This is because, by our very nature, human beings cannot allow their ingrained political or ideological beliefs to be destroyed by "facts" because for many people those beliefs define them and are a central component of their identity.

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So obviously, there's plenty of news that is sensationalized, emotionalized, and stuffed with speculative commentary. But at least the psychological impact on the mental health of consumers is becoming increasingly recognized too. And good thing we have such awesome sources to balance out the negativity.

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