Who is poisoning humanity’s well?

Not one day goes by with my wondering if the current depressive cycle everyone seems to fall into worldwide isn’t due to the fact our world is asphyxiated by Donald Trump as he’s bullying entire Nations, occupying the whole media-sphere and being an awful menace hovering over us all. 

Many are feeling worn down, tense, or discouraged, and when a single political figure dominates headlines, conversations, and social media, it’s natural to assume that saturation is part of the emotional weight we feel. The global mood is depressed and anxious because media saturation amplifies stress when one individual dominates the news cycle, which seems to appear in every headline. 

When every controversy becomes a global conversation, social media algorithms push the most emotionally charged content, all this creates a sense of being “under siege,” even if the actual political impact varies by region. 

Most of us interpret this as a personal emotional burden, even though it’s really an information‑environment burden. 

News outlets are definitely guilty of highlighting conflicts. outrage, threats, scandals and polarization. When the coverage is only negative, people feel tense. This malaise is compounded by global uncertainty as most of us are navigating through economic instability, climate-change anxiety, rapid technological change, social fragmentation and post‑pandemic fatigue. 

As these pressures stack up, the presence of a highly polarizing public figure like Trump can feel like the final straw. This creates a real emotional contagion as the tone around us is echoed by friends that are stressed, angry negative social feeds, dramatic news and conversations that are contaminated by all this background noise. 

Again, to protect our inner world and our sanity, we can only regain balance by limiting exposure to constant news, grounding themselves with family, good friends, and our local community, focusing on meaningful, tangible actions and remembering that the world is bigger than the news cycle. We’re not imagining the heaviness of our times but we’re also not powerless in how we can respond to it!