Have you ever watched something accidentally, and it left you feeling anxious, fearful, or distressed?

Making people anxious by feeding them constant bad news often enslaves a viewer to stay tuned.

Isn't that odd?

This is the very kind of behavior that can actually hurt us, but we have a hard time turning

it off.

I know that I'm not the only podcaster who receives emails, and often it's asking for us to

cover certain topics. One topic that has come up repeatedly is a plea for help with anxiety and

fear. We are seeing pandemic levels of both. The bigger question is this, why has there been such a

dramatic increase? We can't blame everything on the pandemic, even though it did contribute to

historic levels of anguish and distress. But sometimes there are additional causes for constant

sense of doom and darkness, inflicted by unlikely suspects.

We are the unlikely suspects.

Thank you for joining Keep the Heart for today's podcast with Francie Taylor.

Francie is an author, conference speaker, and teacher. She is passionate about

teaching what to do with what we learn from God's Word. Now back to today's valuable study.

Are you tired of the continuous stream of bad reports? It sure does make a terrible diet for the mind,

and it can contribute to a downcast soul. We can't control what the media is serving,

but we can manage how many of their meals we're going to eat. A soul can be weighed down by an overdose of bad news. We need to develop

our own system to balance the load. Have you been overdosing on bad news? Let's look at three common

symptoms and then we'll consider some suggestions for repairing the damage. A first symptom is this.

You are feeling more fearful. We're not the first ones to look at our circumstances and become filled with fear. Jesus was right there with the

disciples daily, performing miracles that they had never seen another person do ever before,

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