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Health: these French people affected by “information fatigue”
Health: these French people affected by “information fatigue” – (franceinfo)
The flood of bad news in the news is more and more present. A flood that more and more of us are finding it difficult to cope with every day. This is called “information fatigue” and affects 53% of French people.
War, attack, natural disaster, economic crisis… Information is everywhere, all the time. And this, while in front of the screens are increasingly vulnerable people. So can we protect ourselves? How to do ? Like many French people, a group of students feels overwhelmed, even desperate, by the influx of bad news. “It’s anxiety about all the horrors that we can see, which are published all the time, constantly. We have less distance from that”estimates a student.
deactivate the notifications
Faced with this bad news, some have decided to deactivate their notifications, a withdrawal strategy. Negative information has a real impact on the brain. “When we consume anxiety-provoking information, we stop breathing, we have muscle tension, we can have insomnia problems”explains Doctor Rapoport-Hubschman.