Research in various countries has found
That internet users who view an excess of disturbing content online
Can develop the same symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder
As people who have experienced trauma directly
Including anxiety, paranoia, insomnia, and hallucinations

Wake up
Middle of the night
Where's my phone?
Turn to the right
Get another hit
Sweet dopamine
In spite of
The horrors you've seen

Dead faces
Heavily armed racists
Screaming teenagers
Murdered in real time
Car crashes
Spliced between ads for crypto
And psychopaths hacking felines
Plus hundreds of other atrocities
You try not to think about too much
Tragedy
Is normalcy
You can't believe
You're still craving more
It's just

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Another hour or 3
Your eyes are swimming in the filth of humanity
Until you realize it's 6 AM and you work at 8
But you don't want to think of the commute
You need a reset from all the terror
So maybe you scroll through some good old memes for a while
Until it's 7:15 and you start to panic
This is the morning routine of millions of people worldwide
And the worst part is you can't talk about it
Because people are just gonna ask
Where did you see all this?
And you'll have to say
Oh I saw it on Reddit or Facebook or YouTube or TikTok or 4chan or whatever
Or maybe for simplicity's sake you would just say
Oh it's on the Internet
And they'll say
Oh well that's your problem
You need to get off your damn phone
Problem solved
But the symptoms persist

Dissociation
Fake conversations
How would you handle situation x
Should you invest in a weapon
Cause you never know what's gonna come next
It's not healthy carrying all these secret scars with no reason or context
Say it's over, but before the day is over you still want more
It's that

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It's a really horrific sound
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Every day you wake up, you're faced with a choice
Do you decide to make a conscious effort
To seek the light in yourself and in the world around you?
Or do you allow yourself to fall apart
Embracing complacency, darkness, and decay?
The choice is yours
And yours alone
So ask yourself
What's my next move?