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It's pick your poison I suppose. I would personally have an easier time dealing with a lower quality of life than I do with constant oppressive existential dread and ceaseless hopelessness and anxiety, but Imagine it's different for everyone.
I guess, but it seems a lot like you might benefit from reducing online time. I know doing that and looking more locally has greatly decreased my anxiety.
I mean, I'm already not on any social media apart from Lemmy. I cultivate my subscriptions here carefully and typically avoid the /all feed. I try to limit my exposure to current events, but you can only bury your head in the sand so much. And even then, it's not like the issues of the world go away just because I'm not looking at them. And consequently the anxiety doesn't go away either. It's possible to push out with temporary distractions, but that's not really possible to maintain 24/7.