Also frankly as good as Twitter is for news coverage, a non-stop pipeline of dead children being pumped into my eyeballs and empty press releases from the British and Irish governments on my news feed has cooked my brain to the point Prevent would probably take interest in my private utterances

Welcome! I was generally more focussed on Mastodon but it's more tech oriented. I'll be posting more here myself. I also felt my mental health decline for many of the same things you've just stated.

You doing full bang and account deletion? Haven't done it yet but think read you can't just leave deactivated, will be deleted by end of a certain period.

I am numb by what I see every day...