Your Type
Your offline trigger is 'another piece of heavy news'. You don't lack judgment — quite the opposite. Because you feel so deeply, every bad piece of world news leaves some weight inside you. When that weight accumulates to a point, you need to temporarily close the news floodgate — not because you don't care, but because you first need to refill your own cup to have the capacity to bear the world's weight again. Going offline is the breathing room you give yourself, not abandonment of the world.
💡 Did you know?
News consumption research finds among people continuously exposed to negative news, high-empathy individuals show Secondary Traumatic Stress indices 52% higher than low-empathy individuals, and headline browsing alone triggers significant cortisol increases even without deep reading.
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