Maddie Levine-Wolf
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125 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2024
last heard Aug 2025
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so much of our news is just like depressing. And it was just like starting off my day and kind of just like a dark way. And so I was like, I need to stop engaging with this. And it's hard because I want to be informed and I want to be engaged. But when a lot of the news is just like heavy and dark and difficult, it makes you want to do the opposite. So, you know, it takes time.
a lot of effort and an active effort to engage with, I feel like any source of news, whether that's like watching the news on like cable TV, whether that's like reading, scrolling through articles on your phone, like so much of the news is just heavy and it's makes it really difficult to want to stay informed. Um,
Even if I'm seeking out sources of information that are within my comfort zone, it's still difficult. And then you add on the extra effort that it sometimes takes to, like you were saying earlier, Clarence, to potentially engage with a source of news that pushes you outside of your comfort zone. So it just takes a lot of effort.
So I, you know, in a sense, I don't blame people for being like, you know what, then therefore I'm just not going to engage with news or information at all. But that's also problematic. So it's, you know, it's, it's, it's difficult. And I feel like that's constantly on my mind of like, there's a balance between engaging an appropriate amount where it doesn't stress me out.
And then the threshold is, of like pushing past that, of being like, now I'm stressed out and anxious and sad and demoralized and all those things. So it's a daily struggle for sure, which is taxing.
and that's yeah and that's also not even like That's on the front end, right? And so then you have to deal with on the back end of like processing all of that on your own, right? And that is also takes a lot of time and effort. And so, you know, again, like I don't blame people who are like, I don't have time for all that, right?
Like I have to work and like put food on the table and pay my bills. Like I don't have time to engage with this like crazy culture of information. So again, which I don't think is right because like, You know, we live in a democracy. Well, some people would say we don't, but we do. And, you know, it's important that people are informed in order to vote in certain ways.
So I don't think it's the right path to say, like, well, this is too stressful. I'm not going to engage. But I I get that in a lot of ways. It is it is hard. So.
I also wonder, like, when you were growing up, was everything as highly politicized as it is now? Because I also think there's an element of, like, everything, all the information we're presented with, like... it's all feeding someone's political agenda, which makes it really difficult because people like the, the,
the idea of truth is even questioned right like there's like actual scientific evidence and data that is that some people think is fake right and so it's like every piece of information is put out there to again feed a political agenda which makes it really really difficult to know like what the truth is because it's not just presented as like the sheer truth it's presented within a
political agenda which is just so complicated yeah i wonder if it's like was that different you know 30 years ago or whatever it was 40 years ago you know i i think there were agendas but i don't think
Yeah, I think that's right. I think it's about finding your own balance of, you know, engaging until a point where it's too much. I think, yeah, I think it's, I think it's really hard and I kind of don't know what the solution is, assuming that this kind of, this, this, culture of our news cycle isn't going anywhere. But, you know, resources, support systems, taking a break. Yeah.
Just kind of assessing what feels good to you, but stay engaged. I think that's important in whatever way. I don't think it's, I don't think it's right to just not engage at all. So finding that balance, like you said.
Um, yeah that's a good question I think for me I think I'm always thinking about what we were kind of talking about earlier the difference between stress and anxiety because for me I think oftentimes those two things are very conflated um and I personally have a hard time um like separating the two.
I think I'm constantly like in therapy, I'm constantly using like stress and anxiety interchangeably. And so I feel like knowing that there is a difference is important. I think for me, I didn't actually realize that I had anxiety until like COVID started. I think some of that is based on my childhood and how I saw anxiety manifesting in one way.
I thought that that was the only way that anxiety manifested. And I was like, oh, that's not what I'm experiencing. So I must not be anxious. And then I remember once COVID started happening, my anxiety was manifesting in these like nightly panic attacks. And I was like, oh, maybe I am anxious. And so I got into therapy.
Ultimately I started taking Lexapro and my anxiety and stress has, I've been able to manage it a lot better. But yeah, I mean, I also think it's interesting thinking about, and Brandon, maybe you can speak to this a little bit, is that like, I feel like right now we live in such a high stress environment. There's so much going on in the world that causes stress and anxiety.
But I also have to imagine that like, people had the same levels of high stress and high anxiety like 100 years ago. So is it that like our world or in our life is getting more stressful and anxiety producing? Or is it more of like you were saying with kids these days about how sources of stress and anxiety are just shifting?
That's so interesting. Thank you.
Right, right.
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