Watching weather related Doom Porn causes mental health issues

[Anti Federalist]

You knew hurricanes are stressful. Now researchers know how much.

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/health/...102-story.html

Watching the news to brace for a hurricane is a fact of life for us Floridians, but you need to be careful not to stay glued to all those media reports.

Because if you do, you’re more likely to succumb to stress and mental health problems after the storm.

Those are among the findings of a new study released Friday by psychologist-researchers at the University of California-Irvine.

“A steady diet of media while anticipating the disaster is not psychologically helpful,” said Roxane Cohen Silver, professor of psychological science and co-author of the study.

The study asked 1,600 Florida residents to report their hours spent watching media reports in advance of 2017’s Hurricane Irma and their anxiety levels in the aftermath. And it found that those who were glued to media reports were likely to suffer more stress and mental health conditions afterward.

The researchers found that Florida residents who paid the most attention to media reports of the storm suffered from “post-traumatic” stress symptoms, regardless of whether the storm spared their homes from damage, Silver said.

In the 60 hours leading up to landfall in the middle Keys on Sept. 10, the psychologists asked a diverse sample of residents aged 18 to 91 statewide to complete a survey about time spent watching television, listening to radio, reading print news, and scrolling social media.

“We assessed the degree to which people were paying attention to a traditional media as well as online news and social media,” Silver said. “People could be doing these at the same time — the radio in the background and checking social media and TV.”

They surveyed the same group again, getting a 90 percent response rate in the month after Irma. Those who had paid the most attention to media coverage before the storm, were “repeatedly ruminating or feeling anxious in the aftermath,” Silver said.

“It’s not about full-blown, post-traumatic stress syndrome that people who go to war might exhibit, but the same kinds of stress. In other work that we have done, we have linked post-traumatic stress to psychological problems over time,” said Silver, whose team also studied the lingering effects of repeated exposure to violent images from the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Turning to the media before a storm for information is natural and can be important, but “attention should be tempered,” she said.

Communication efforts in Hurricane Irma were hampered because forecasters couldn’t narrow which path the storm would take, only that it could be a Category 4 or 5 and would hit Florida.

“The anticipation of this storm and the slow-moving nature, and fact it was hitting one island at a time before it hit Florida, led to this degree of media attention,” Silver said. At times, the media coverage “was quite sensationalized.” she recalls. “I have a screenshot of a CNN.com headline that said ‘In an evacuation zone? Leave now’ ”

CNN’s story on Sept. 8, similar to several media reports, had covered Gov. Rick Scott’s early morning press conference, where he said: "If you have been ordered to evacuate, you need to leave now. Do not wait. Evacuate. Not tonight, not in an hour. You need to go right now."

Many heeded the governor’s warning, driving out of the state, which left fuel scarce for those who left too late or remained. Of the survey sample of 1,600, nearly a third evacuated, according to a co-author, psychologist Rebecca Thompson.

This is the first report from a planned yearlong study of the data. The psychologists soon will examine the survey results of Florida residents who went through both 2018’s Hurricane Michael and 2017’s Hurricane Irma.

“People in Florida at risk of hurricane exposure are experiencing something very different than people at risk for tornadoes or earthquakes,” Silver said. “You don’t have the kind of lead-up you have with a hurricane.”

Silver said what public officials and the media should take away from the Irma study is that “the period before a hurricane hits is an important one. It’s not merely the destruction of homes and communities, but the lead-up to the storm is an important period. … The focus is always on the aftermath.”

[oyarde]

The Seminoles did not evacuate or suffer from storm stress .

[pcosmar]

Chicken Little Syndrome

seen it several times...

[TheCount]

Do you suppose that the same might be true for other kinds of doom porn? Say, economic or "cultural?"

[oyarde]

Do you suppose that the same might be true for other kinds of doom porn? Say, economic or "cultural?"

Personally I think economic doom porn is great . I can imagine myself wealthier after the big crash .

[Occam's Banana]

Do you suppose that the same might be true for other kinds of doom porn? Say, economic or "cultural?"

Personally I think economic doom porn is great . I can imagine myself wealthier after the big crash .

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

Do you suppose that the same might be true for other kinds of doom porn? Say, economic or "cultural?"

It figures our resident anti-liberty Hillary and 2x Obama voter would troll this thread with a red herring. Your comment is like the tobacco companies being asked about cigarette induced cancer and then retorting by citing all the other things that cause cancer.

[Swordsmyth]

Do you suppose that the same might be true for other kinds of doom porn? Say, economic or "cultural?"

It works for those who sit around smoking hopium as the world burns around them too, it just produces a different kind of mental disability.

[Anti Federalist]

Do you suppose that the same might be true for other kinds of doom porn? Say, economic or "cultural?"

Sure, don't see any reason why not.

Define "doom" in those circumstances.

Weather doom is pretty universal: wind, rain, floods, tornadoes, droughts, destruction.

The current crop of New Bolsheviks, Latter Day Jacobins and "Race, Identity and Weirdosexuality is The New Class Struggle" Marxists view a happy, productive, employed, well adjusted community of white folks living with minimal government as "doom".

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

...Marxists view a happy, productive, employed, well adjusted community of white folks living with minimal government as "doom".

Yep. Some people will never be satisfied no matter what you do, including this fellow who says:


"Nice whites are a problem for black folk because it forces the latter to assume the position of guilt and responsibility."

[TheCount]

Sure, don't see any reason why not.

Define "doom" in those circumstances.

Weather doom is pretty universal: wind, rain, floods, tornadoes, droughts, destruction.

The current crop of New Bolsheviks, Latter Day Jacobins and "Race, Identity and Weirdosexuality is The New Class Struggle" Marxists view a happy, productive, employed, well adjusted community of white folks living with minimal government as "doom".

It just seems to me that your tone has changed over the last... say, eight months or so. Makes me assume that you're consuming quite a bit of doom porn yourself.


Doom would be in the eye of the beholder, obviously. It would need to be a thing which frightens them in order to attract and hold their attention, but given the right media spin, people can be made to be frightened by nearly anything, including things which pose no actual threat to them.

[Swordsmyth]

things which pose no actual threat to them.

LOL

"It can't happen here"

[TheCount]

LOL

"It can't happen here"

Do you disagree with what I said?

given the right media spin, people can be made to be frightened by nearly anything, including things which pose no actual threat to them.

[Swordsmyth]

Do you disagree with what I said?

I disagree with your obvious intent to imply that things AF is concerned with are no actual threat to him:

Do you suppose that the same might be true for other kinds of doom porn? Say, economic or "cultural?"

[Anti Federalist]

It just seems to me that your tone has changed over the last... say, eight months or so. Makes me assume that you're consuming quite a bit of doom porn yourself.

You are quite right, my tone has changed, quite drastically, and it's been a little longer than eight months, it been about a year and half or so I guess.

Now, of course, some folks would immediately assume that I became a "Trmp Humper" or some such...when the fact of the matter is I was vigorously opposed to him, did not vote for him, and still do not not fully support him, outside of some faint praise when he slaps down a regulatory agency or reduces our warfare footprint or enacts wholesale prison and judicial reform.

No, what's changed me is the reaction of the Bolshevik left in opposition to Trump. They have let the mask slip off, and have made it very clear, that me and my posterity are to be silenced, dispossessed and ignored in the New America they are building.

Given free reign, as they have been in other nations over the course of the last two hundred years or so now, it could very well lead to extermination.

Doom would be in the eye of the beholder, obviously. It would need to be a thing which frightens them in order to attract and hold their attention, but given the right media spin, people can be made to be frightened by nearly anything, including things which pose no actual threat to them.

"Preppers" are often mocked and laughed at, many times for falling victim to doom porn pronouncements, as if they were the gospel truth.

I know a couple people here, who shall remain nameless, who were ruined financially by taking Ron's dire predictions of an imminent currency and economic crash as gospel.

Yet, for all the possible downsides, you never see them in a mad rush at the supermarkets, box stores and Qik - E - Marts stocking up on plywood, wadded beef and gasoline as hurricanes or natural disasters unfold.

What I see in the future, and what I've been told will be the future is none too rosy for me and mine. I do not find this fear to be unfounded, irrational or overstated.

I'll be maintaining my "hope for the best but expect the worst" outlook for a while now.

And doing whatever I can to try and stop the utter destruction of a way of life, a political philosophy, a heritage and my very life.

[TheCount]

Now, of course, you'd immediately assume that I became a "Trmp Humper" or some such...

I didn't and have never said that. I said what I assume, that you are consuming a very specific sort of doom porn which has convinced you of a threat to a degree which is not aligned with reality. Just like the OP.

Yet, for all the possible downsides, you never see them in a mad rush at the supermarkets, box stores and Qik - E - Marts stocking up on plywood, wadded beef and gasoline as hurricanes or natural disasters unfold.

What I see in the future, and what I've been told will be the future is none too rosy for me and mine. I do not find this fear to be unfounded, irrational or overstated

The other downside to these sorts of worldviews, besides the losses that you mentioned, is that one becomes financially and emotionally invested in the calamity that one expects.

[Anti Federalist]

Yep. Some people will never be satisfied no matter what you do, including this fellow who says:

"Nice whites are a problem for black folk because it forces the latter to assume the position of guilt and responsibility."

What is the alternative? Answer: whites more serious about confronting their own responsibility for racism than they are about being nice to avoid that guilt. So fellow whites: be nice, but not too nice; be normal, but not the norm; be responsible, but do not feel whatever form of guilt that entices you to “make up” for it with niceties. Be brave in your confrontation with guilt, for your black brothers and sisters are far braver than you for entering white space every single day in stride.

[Anti Federalist]

I didn't and have never said that. I said what I assume, that you are consuming a very specific sort of doom porn which has convinced you of a threat to a degree which is not aligned with reality. Just like the OP.

True enough, maybe a better phrasing would be "some would assume".

I addressed what had changed my mind, and it hasn't been doom porn...where I find the information of this coming expropriation is not looked at as doom, but as a positive thing to be desired and assisted.

The other downside to these sorts of worldviews, besides the losses that you mentioned, is that one becomes financially and emotionally invested in the calamity that one expects.

Real risks, no doubt.

I have analyzed this course of action and change of position in my own mind very carefully.

I do not find the danger to be understated, false or imagined.

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

... you are consuming a very specific sort of doom porn which has convinced you of a threat to a degree which is not aligned with reality. Just like the OP.

You earlier made a blanket statement to serve as a red herring. You replied for the express purpose of trolling. Your opinion is not to help any individual here, nor to advance liberty, or even for an honest discusson.

You are the porn filth in this thread.

[Swordsmyth]

TheVampire isn't interested in reality, he is interested in putting you to sleep so that his masters can finish us off with out resistance.

[TheCount]

I do not find the danger to be understated, false or imagined.

Neither did people glued to the hurricane coverage.

[Swordsmyth]

Neither did people glued to the hurricane coverage.

Take your Soma elsewhere.

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

Take your Soma elsewhere.

Yep, and don't forget the other 1/2 of that equation. Porn peddling progressives like TheCount like to sell their own versions of doom. Like this:

New York City underwater? Gas over $9 a gallon? A carton of milk costs almost $13? Welcome to June 12, 2015. Or at least that was the wildly-inaccurate version of 2015 predicted by ABC News exactly seven years ago.


60 second video:

[Anti Federalist]

Neither did people glued to the hurricane coverage.

Again, I see that as an "apples to bowling balls" comparison.

Political and cultural "doom" is more loosely defined and depends on point of view as opposed to physical doom of a natural disaster.

[phill4paul]

You are quite right, my tone has changed, quite drastically, and it's been a little longer than eight months, it been about a year and half or so I guess.

Now, of course, some folks would immediately assume that I became a "Trmp Humper" or some such...when the fact of the matter is I was vigorously opposed to him, did not vote for him, and still do not not fully support him, outside of some faint praise when he slaps down a regulatory agency or reduces our warfare footprint or enacts wholesale prison and judicial reform.

No, what's changed me is the reaction of the Bolshevik left in opposition to Trump. They have let the mask slip off, and have made it very clear, that me and my posterity are to be silenced, dispossessed and ignored in the New America they are building.

Given free reign, as they have been in other nations over the course of the last two hundred years or so now, it could very well lead to extermination.



"Preppers" are often mocked and laughed at, many times for falling victim to doom porn pronouncements, as if they were the gospel truth.

I know a couple people here, who shall remain nameless, who were ruined financially by taking Ron's dire predictions of an imminent currency and economic crash as gospel.

Yet, for all the possible downsides, you never see them in a mad rush at the supermarkets, box stores and Qik - E - Marts stocking up on plywood, wadded beef and gasoline as hurricanes or natural disasters unfold.

What I see in the future, and what I've been told will be the future is none too rosy for me and mine. I do not find this fear to be unfounded, irrational or overstated.

I'll be maintaining my "hope for the best but expect the worst" outlook for a while now.

And doing whatever I can to try and stop the utter destruction of a way of life, a political philosophy, a heritage and my very life.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Anti Federalist again.

[Schifference]

Doom Gloom Porn is healthy as long as it is sanctioned by the state and blessed by the MSM.

[Brian4Liberty]

Perhaps someone can explain the preponderance of “doom porn” on streaming services like Netflix. There is so much of it, one might wonder if there is an agenda behind it. Or perhaps it is just the negative, empty, depressed mindset that comes from leftism and permanent victim status?

For examples, we can go back to Al Gore’s movie “The Day After Tomorrow”, or more recently with “The Bird Box” or Obama’s favorite movie of 2018, “Annihilation”. Not to mention the series that spawned many suicides, “13 Reasons Why”.

Does Netflix reflect the mindset of the typical leftist, or does this “entertainment” program the minds? Or is it a feedback loop of negative reinforcement?

[oyarde]

that birdbox movie sucked , maybe not quite as bad as Al Gores but I dunno , I did not watch Gore.

[oyarde]

When I was a kid I remember seeing a very , very old map that depicted california as a sort of island . When they announce the island of california is floting away from the mainland I am going to watch that .

[Schifference]

Perhaps someone can explain the preponderance of doom poor on streaming services like Netflix. There is so much of it, one might wonder if there is an agenda behind it. Or perhaps it is just the negative, empty, depressed mindset that comes from leftism and permanent victim status?

For examples, we can go back to Al Gore’s movie “The Day After Tomorrow”, or more recently with “The Bird Box” or Obama’s favorite movie of 2018, “Annihilation”. Not to mention the series that spawned many suicides, “13 Reasons Why”.

Does Netflix reflect the mindset of the typical leftist, or does this “entertainment” program the minds? Or is it a feedback loop of negative reinforcement?

My son was telling me that he heard Joe Rogan say that it is easy to get your stuff on Neftlix.