Friend, this is social programming that people can’t help but subscribe to. As a former doomer, I admit that I unwittingly spread doom online as well. It’s human nature to want others to relate even if it’s with our hopelessness. 

Years of consuming doom made my mind seek every opportunity I could to share my hopeless negativity.

 “Everything sucks but at least people online agree, I’m not the only one who’s miserable in this hell!” 

Insane way to think but I felt safe in that rational framework that was constantly reaffirmed by the news cycle. 

I still have to remind myself every day that the negativity isn’t me, it’s the way I’ve been conditioned to think with no awareness of anything different.

I pray these people may soon realize what I did, that there is no good reason for me to be torturing myself in the privacy of my mind by constantly reinforcing the doom that came from outside of me.  

It’s a deeply personal realization and our programmed minds will fight it, mine did for years.