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Reply #4: Why not just brush up on the Holocaust, then? There's some more good pre-bedtime reading. [View All]

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Poll_Blind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-04-10 04:20 AM
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4. Why not just brush up on the Holocaust, then? There's some more good pre-bedtime reading.
I went through this same thing after 9/11. Exact same thing. You, at your fingertips, have access to the Internet. The Internet is a genie which will bring you any thing you want. But it brings you what you want.

So, if you want to get to bed, you might want to ask it to bring you something other than shit that's going to keep you up and/or feed a running panic attack. You're in control there. But if you keep looking up the news, you're already in a mood where your eyes are prolly not gonna alight on the stories that make you feel good.

It's absolutely 100% human nature to focus on things which reinforce our beliefs and/or our mood.

Realize it and choose differently, at least to help you sleep. But it is a choice and I can't come through the wires with a hot pot of cammomile tea for you, cause if I could somehow I'd probably be tempted to...

:hug:

PB
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