Do you know something I realised today? I have been so worried about getting angry at rage bait, rage bait news, rage bait social media\u2026<\/p>\n
Reading these words from angry people makes me angry, I was so worried that my mental health was declining because there\u2019s more rage than ever\u2026<\/p>\n
I thought I was losing control of myself\u2026<\/p>\n
But the problem is not me, it\u2019s the article, or the social media post, or the toxic community of whatever, I was absorbing all the rage as if it was some deep inbuilt fault of my own, like it was a broken part of myself, blaming myself for getting upset, but that\u2019s not what\u2019s happening\u2026<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the content\u2019s problem not mine, it\u2019s the author\u2019s broken brain, not mine, my reaction was a rational, and dare I say, justified one, me getting upset is ok, that\u2019s not the problem, the content is the problem.<\/p>\n
I was soooo quick to blame myself and I want to remember it\u2019s ok to have emotions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Do you know something I realised today? I have been so worried about getting angry at rage bait, rage bait news, rage bait social media\u2026 Reading these words from angry people makes me angry, I was so worried that my mental health was declining because there\u2019s more rage than ever\u2026 I thought I was losing … Continue reading A rant about rage bait<\/span>