Has Fear Porn Inserted Its Way Into Your Mind?

[eagle1462010]

Has Fear Porn Inserted Its Way Into Your Mind?

Is all the media getting to you? A few changes can go a long way.

www.psychologytoday.com

If you have not heard of the term "fear porn", it refers to mainstream media content that deliberately and enticingly plays on people's fears about disaster, disease, and death. Yes, there are media outlets that go beyond informing and alerting the public. Media is necessary and important to inform the public and to educate. However, at what point does informing turn into aggressively alarming people? Certain media is “intentionally” trying to panic the public. In a way, they are violating

Here are some ways to help correct or prevent mental health consequences from the “fear porn” industry:

1. Limit or get rid of your media intake. This includes social media, which is filled with plenty of strangers and “friends” trying to persuade and terrorize you.
2. Once you have limited media, use that time to go outside in the sun and walk or run. Exercise can help reduce your stress levels. Also, responsible sun exposure has been proven to help with some psychological conditions.
3. Refuse to get into conversations with anyone regarding what they saw or heard that was terrifying on the news. Simply explain to everyone that you will be using your own judgment to “protect” yourself as opposed to all the unknown reporters in the world.
4. Definitely get help immediately if you are unable to function socially or occupationally. Programs are available and are useful when trying to desensitize yourself, to have a quality of life.

 

[eagle1462010]

 

[Auld Phart]

 

[fncceo]

Has Fear Porn Inserted Its Way Into Your Mind?​

No, regular porn has taken up all the available space.

 

[eagle1462010]

LOL I hate that song. Stood in line for college registration once and they played it over and over again for 8 hours..........It was torture.

 

[jackflash]

I'd say that the definition of "Fear Porn" would be the "RepubliCratic Duopoly Party"(RCDP) of our USA. I know that the Major Managed News Media(MMNM) is the RCDP's propaganda wing but it takes BOTH of the above mentioned entities to get the "fear" out to the more gullible in the general public.

 

[Gracie]

I get the news HERE, and at Gab. I don't bother with lame stream media.

 

[gipper]

Much of my extended family are vaccinators and boosters. Some are still very much afraid to venture out, even though they’re vaxxed and boosted. They refer to every gathering of people as super spreaders.
They love to talk about people they know who have the Covid, even though they’re all vaxxed and boosted. I’ve learned to accept their foolishness and just ignore it.

 

[sparky]

I fear an incompetent , shill , totalitarianist governance more than any virus

~S~

 

[1srelluc]

LOL....The best example of that is when a few inches of snow is forecast to fall around the DC Metro area.....You would think that there is a meteor hurtling towards us given the breathless reporting. I hate the "local" news out of DC.....Everything is "hair on fire" to them.

Meanwhile, 60 miles West out in the hinterlands we just position the snow shovels, gas-up the snow-blowers, and have a Coke.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Has Fear Porn Inserted Its Way Into Your Mind?

Is all the media getting to you? A few changes can go a long way.

www.psychologytoday.com

If you have not heard of the term "fear porn", it refers to mainstream media content that deliberately and enticingly plays on people's fears about disaster, disease, and death. Yes, there are media outlets that go beyond informing and alerting the public. Media is necessary and important to inform the public and to educate. However, at what point does informing turn into aggressively alarming people? Certain media is “intentionally” trying to panic the public. In a way, they are violating

Here are some ways to help correct or prevent mental health consequences from the “fear porn” industry:

1. Limit or get rid of your media intake. This includes social media, which is filled with plenty of strangers and “friends” trying to persuade and terrorize you.
2. Once you have limited media, use that time to go outside in the sun and walk or run. Exercise can help reduce your stress levels. Also, responsible sun exposure has been proven to help with some psychological conditions.
3. Refuse to get into conversations with anyone regarding what they saw or heard that was terrifying on the news. Simply explain to everyone that you will be using your own judgment to “protect” yourself as opposed to all the unknown reporters in the world.
4. Definitely get help immediately if you are unable to function socially or occupationally. Programs are available and are useful when trying to desensitize yourself, to have a quality of life.

You make good suggestions.

The only thing I would add is that the media is just doing the bidding of the government. Two main methods of controlling the populous are fear and division.

For decades now there has always been a Boogieman that the Govt told us we need to fear. The Red Scare of the 40s and the 50s was really the start of it.

 

[Devils_Advocate]

Does the media and Government peddle Fear Porn?

Nah, just let me watch MSNBC to get the answer from Harris and Company before I make my informative opinion that Rachel Maddow will tell me to have…

Read, Read, Read and after that Read even more different opinions to understand the current topic and do not just use one source for information…

 

[Harpy Eagle]

LOL....The best example of that is when a few inches of snow is forecast to fall around the DC Metro area.....You would think that there is a meteor hurtling towards us given the breathless reporting. I hate the "local" news out of DC.....Everything is "hair on fire" to them.

Meanwhile, 60 miles West out in the hinterlands we just position the snow shovels, gas-up the snow-blowers, and have a Coke.

It seems anywhere south of Montana does this. I am not far from St Louis and the same thing happens when there is a snow storm in the forecast.

When I was stationed in SC it was far worse.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

The only thing I would add is that the media is just doing the bidding of the government.

Nonsense.

The ‘media’ are no more an agent of government than they are engaged in some nefarious conspiracy.

The right’s attempts to vilify ‘the media’ are as tedious as they are wrongheaded.

 

[Devils_Advocate]

Nonsense.

The ‘media’ are no more an agent of government than they are engaged in some nefarious conspiracy.

The right’s attempts to vilify ‘the media’ are as tedious as they are wrongheaded.

Unless it is FOX, right?

 

[August West]

You make good suggestions.

The only thing I would add is that the media is just doing the bidding of the government. Two main methods of controlling the populous are fear and division.

For decades now there has always been a Boogieman that the Govt told us we need to fear. The Red Scare of the 40s and the 50s was really the start of it.

A government and media conspiracy? It couldn`t be about selling papers and driving up the ratings for tv news, could it? Capitalism drives the media.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Nonsense.

The ‘media’ are no more an agent of government than they are engaged in some nefarious conspiracy.

The right’s attempts to vilify ‘the media’ are as tedious as they are wrongheaded.

The media is complicit in this due to the old adage of "if it bleeds it leads". Bad news sells papers, brings viewers and mouse clicks. Whether they are an "agent" or not is not really important, they are helping regardless

 

[Harpy Eagle]

A government and media conspiracy? It couldn`t be about selling papers and driving up the ratings for tv news, could it? Capitalism drives the media.

True, I did use the wrong word when I said "bidding". See post 17.

 

[sparky]

The ‘media’ are no more an agent of government than they are engaged in some nefarious conspiracy.

Would that be same media that beat the war drums for the oilocracy to invade a country that had zero to do with 9/11?, the same media that painted welfare queens as the perps for the wall street crash banksters to skate Clay????


~S~

 

[Harpy Eagle]

This was on my FB feed just now, seemed to fit the thread....