This Instagram Account Shares Uplifting News From Around The World So You Can See All The Good There Is (50 Posts)
The world can seem like a messed up place. Especially if we look at it through the mainstream media. But it can also be beautiful. We just need to remind ourselves of that every once in a while.
Enter the Instagram account 'Good News Dog.' It regularly fetches uplifting moments from around the globe for the 1.4 million people that follow it, giving them one reason to smile after another.
Think of it as a good boy who gets up early in the morning to bring you the newspaper. Only instead of your coffee table, the fella leaves it on your social media feed. And instead of the fearmongering articles, there's a picture of a woman who just knit a bag of hats for a shelter. Or another one showing thousands of Berliners greeting Ukrainian refugees with signs, offering a place to stay.
Continue scrolling to explore this wholesome corner of the internet through Bored Panda's hand-picked selection of its best posts.
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Today a lady and her husband came into our Home Depot and told us that the insurance company might not pay for their little boy’s walker, so they went on the internet and found plans to make one out of PVC pipe. My store manager heard about this and went over to them and said, "We got this."
We started putting it together and told the family to go and enjoy ice cream and come back in an hour. Other associates started jumping in and when the family came back it was done. Everyone was crying to see Logan walk around with the biggest smile on his face.
When the family tried to pay us, we said "No way, this one is on us."
What a wonderful act of kindness!
Pages like 'Good News Dog' are needed more than you might think. "Unfortunately, a lot of the news we consume today isn’t so much reporting as it is a way of keeping people addicted to the news cycle," said licensed psychologist Logan Jones, PsyD.
Since sensational headlines get more attention, Jones says media outlets often end up focusing on disaster reporting—and rarely any positive news.
"Consuming too much of this kind of news, whether actively or passively, can be very toxic, and what you hear has an impact on your mood."
Annie Miller, MSW, LCSW-C, LICSW, explains the process like this: when we experience a threat, our brain activates the fight or flight response, and the systems in our body react accordingly.
Consuming the news can activate the sympathetic nervous system, which causes our body to release stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline. Then, when a crisis is happening, and we are experiencing this stress response more frequently, Miller says physical symptoms may arise.
And I see you are an LCSW. You have used your hardship to grow compassion instead of bitterness. All the best to you, good sir.
This emotional toll and negative effect on the psyche was demonstrated in a study that found people who watched negative material, as compared to those who watched positive or neutral material, showed an increase in both anxious and sad moods after just 14 minutes of viewing television news bulletins and programs.
In addition to an increase in anxious and sad moods, the researchers also found the results to be consistent with the theories of worry that implicate a negative mood as a causal factor in facilitating worrisome thoughts.
That second sentence was completely unnecessary. You can't judge a country for its past. All countries including mine have embarrassing moments in history. We can't tag Germans as nazis, we can't tag Spain (where I live) with dictatorship and terrorism, and so on. And you can't say polish people are doing better than they did. Different times, different people. Congrats for today's job, Poles. Better think twice what you write, dude.
There's even a word for the act of obsessively reading bad news despite the onset of anxiety It's called doomscrolling and even thought it's quite new, research stretching back for decades has long warned that consuming too much negative news can take its toll.
Studies have linked poor mental health to news exposure during negative and traumatic events; the more news a person consumes during and after these events, the more likely they are to suffer from depression, stress and anxiety. For example, there's a study that surveyed 4,675 Americans in the weeks following the Boston Marathon bombings and collected data on how much media they consumed. Participants who engaged with more than six hours of media coverage per day were nine times more likely to also experience symptoms of high acute stress than those who only watched a minimal amount of news.
Scumbag parents having an issue with someone getting an education, good on the president.
Lack of education and exposure to people with disabilities. Growing up in Eastern Europe, the first time I've been exposed to disabled people living a full, independent life, was after I moved to the UK for my studies. I now count that experience as probably one of the most important ones from my time over in Britain.
Load More Replies...About a decade a go my distant relative who is a primary school teacher told me this *I don't want them in my class, what if they infect me. They shouldn't be allowed to normal schools incase they will expect to have future like my kids. I don't want my kids to have sick children* I was genetics student, and I knew from that time to stay away from her. Genetic disorders are not infectious, and ALL disorders that are somewhat rare and present at birth are MISUNDERSTOOD by people, government, teachers, healthcare professionals. The only people who have been opened to this world are people directly involved with them. Nobody should be hidden from world!!!
What's sad is the most bullying is done by adults, not other children
Who? Tell me their address and I will personally go and give these entitled bitches a beating. (The parents not the girl)
*sharpens knife* where do they live again? North macedonia, right?
Load More Replies...Also to add down syndrome is a mismatch of genes, but hatred is a taught condition, and usually takes years before a child can replicate that hatred (infants, toddlers usually don't understand it, but at 5 when most children are introduced to school settings it will show.. parenting at its finest, let's apply our own insecurities to our children. If I don't like they won't.
Load More Replies...I hope you're talking about the TFG and not my beloved President Biden!!
Load More Replies...Ugh. That reminds me of Ryan White in the 80s. He was diagnosed with HIV after being administered tainted haemophilia treatment, and his classmates' parents yanked their children from school when he returned to the classroom. Teachers also protested his return and the matter went to court. Even today, 32 years after his death, some people in that town still slander his name to their children and grandchildren.
It terrifies and deeply saddens me the while the President of Macedonia can take care of bullying in school in this way, we in the United States are once again, with our President, mourning the unacceptable and preventable loss of young children because our legislators are more tied up to their money from the gun lobby than they are interested in stopping this b******t.
It's shocking. Mental health in children is getting worse and worse because parents have unresolved issues, parents who themselves had crappy parents who had crappy parents......people need help they never get, and then raise their children with their flawed thinking.
It's very special for him to take time and place importance on this little girl being able to attend her school along with everyone else, but more should have been done about the bullies and the staff not making it a welcoming environment for her there. It's a shame that it took the president escorting her to school, for her to be able to go inside without any problems. It's disgusting that it was allowed to reach those levels.
We can only hope their children turn out to be more accepting and everyone learns from this.
Seem like something some parents would say when it there kids causing the problem. Dumb a*s parents snobs
Complain about what ?!! ..some people are literally the scum of the earth!
There used to be a girl with Down syndrome in my karate class when I was a kid. Ran into her a few years back at a music festival. She was there with her fiance's best friend.
2020 was exceptionally bad. "We've had so much news from COVID-19 and the economic breakdown to the reckoning with racial injustice combined with hurricanes and firestorms," said Roxane Cohen Silver, a research psychologist at the University of California, Irvine. "It's clear the stress of the election has added to all this."
"So much of it is open-ended and uncertain at the moment," Graham Davey, an emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom added. "That alone is something that people find extraordinarily stressful."
Psychologists refer to it as an "intolerance of uncertainty," and, unfortunately, it's a vicious cycle. You find listening to the news stressful and anxiety-provoking but can't stop doing it because you feel the need to find out what on earth is going on.
But there are things that people can do to protect their mental health from the potentially damaging effects of obsessively consuming news. "It's important to be informed but we don't want you to be doomscrolling," said Judith Andersen, a health psychologist at the University of Toronto in Canada.
"Check the news just once a day, and I don't think it's best to check in the morning because it clouds the rest of your day." She also recommends confining yourself to well-established and credible news sources to avoid the risk of over-hyped or even misleading content.
Never let our elderly feel lonely. They are treasures and need to be treated like so
But those times that you do sit down to get up to speed with the world around you, Davey recommends that you actually read articles in full, rather than simply checking out the headlines. "Headlines are usually dramatized, and you need more context than that," he explained.
Or simply fire up 'Good News Dog!'
This hits home. Hopefully my kitten with FIP will be declared cured of this normally-fatal disease in two weeks (treatment is 84 days of medication injections) - and he’s definitely getting some delish foods and a party :D I’m so glad this pupper made it too!
Americans should take a lesson from this example. This is how to offer comfort to strangers in peril.
Woohooooooooooooooo. If we saw things the way that 6 year olds did, the world would be a better place.
My grandmas are both long gone :( I will help protecc OP’s grandma, as both of mine would want me to XD
It doesn't matter if they're biological or not, a good mama will take in any infants.
While this is an awesome little story, I have seen it on BP probably over 10 times now lol
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Oh come on ... too early to be ugly crying in my car... I'm 43 male and working, for gods sake!
I didn't realize how much I needed this until about 1/2 way through. I've been heading down to a dark place lately, this really did help.
raise you hand if you think people who abandon senior dogs(without a reason)are the worst
Guys she pulled off the road so they could see them!! Pulled off the road....
Conclusions: 1) animals are funny 2) satanists enjoy each others' company 3) pentagon (maybe dhs now) still makes those embarrassing memes while destroying billions of lives.
Yall like wholesome I dare you to watch one single episode of Relative Race without crying. not countying day 10 oc. Especially one where one of the teams unites with their parents for the first time.
So many of these posts are just recycled and have been posted many times already over the years. Maybe I'm the idiot for hoping to read something new and relevant but i find it kind of annoying a website like this just keeps showing me the same stuff.
Can we get it monthly, please? My story: in my school, in 12th grade of German High School ("Oberstufe") when the teacher is not there the lesson gets cancelled and you get homework as replacement. Over the last quarter usually in a week 30% of classes got cancelled, there were weeks where more was cancelled than took place. My Latin teacher wrote every Wednesday a vocab test and because I had to do the homework to replace cancelled lessons I could not properly learn for the test. I wrote her every week a letter listing the lessons cancelled (with percentage) and how much class in the subjects was cancelled that I chose for "Abitur" exams (similar to A levels), e. g. Wednesday, 3rd period last test, 4th and 6th cancelled, ...., 42.3% cancelled. She said that everyone who has many cancelled classes will be graded that a normal B is an A, a normal C is a B etc. I would have scored an A- anyways so I did not need that but some would have failed without the rule.
Oh come on ... too early to be ugly crying in my car... I'm 43 male and working, for gods sake!
I didn't realize how much I needed this until about 1/2 way through. I've been heading down to a dark place lately, this really did help.
raise you hand if you think people who abandon senior dogs(without a reason)are the worst
Guys she pulled off the road so they could see them!! Pulled off the road....
Conclusions: 1) animals are funny 2) satanists enjoy each others' company 3) pentagon (maybe dhs now) still makes those embarrassing memes while destroying billions of lives.
Yall like wholesome I dare you to watch one single episode of Relative Race without crying. not countying day 10 oc. Especially one where one of the teams unites with their parents for the first time.
So many of these posts are just recycled and have been posted many times already over the years. Maybe I'm the idiot for hoping to read something new and relevant but i find it kind of annoying a website like this just keeps showing me the same stuff.
Can we get it monthly, please? My story: in my school, in 12th grade of German High School ("Oberstufe") when the teacher is not there the lesson gets cancelled and you get homework as replacement. Over the last quarter usually in a week 30% of classes got cancelled, there were weeks where more was cancelled than took place. My Latin teacher wrote every Wednesday a vocab test and because I had to do the homework to replace cancelled lessons I could not properly learn for the test. I wrote her every week a letter listing the lessons cancelled (with percentage) and how much class in the subjects was cancelled that I chose for "Abitur" exams (similar to A levels), e. g. Wednesday, 3rd period last test, 4th and 6th cancelled, ...., 42.3% cancelled. She said that everyone who has many cancelled classes will be graded that a normal B is an A, a normal C is a B etc. I would have scored an A- anyways so I did not need that but some would have failed without the rule.