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Slack.com slash DHQ. Hey there, it's your friend TIG. I have been feeling some anxiousness

on a certain level that I hadn't in the past year and a half. And I was really trying

to figure out how did things escalate for me personally with this anxiety. One night,

I was unable to sleep. I got in touch with the fact that the amount of news that I was

reading was not helping my state of mind. And I woke up the next day and I just deleted

the news apps off of my phone because I noticed I was getting into such a spiral. And

I think a lot of people rely on social media to check out or that brings them anxiety.

And I really think it was news for me. I am a firm believer in that your phone should

not alert you of any sort of news or social media or anything like that. That you should

go to these sites when you want information rather than letting them have the control

to alert you. So I've actually kept just one app on my phone and it is for NPR. And this

is not an ad for NPR. But it's just a five minute update of the headline news that you

don't read. They just tell you the news for five minutes every hour if you want the news

that hour. And some days I can't even believe this. I haven't even clicked on that news.

I still feel like I know for the most part what's going on. But I just I'm trying to avoid

any sort of unnecessary stressful, salacious news headlines. And I cannot believe. I mean,

I think I'm going on a month now. I have not read the news. And honestly, I'm sleeping

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