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Stop reading the news. You rarely if ever get any information that will change your decisions anyway.
Get off any social media or other that feeds you negativity.
And read Rolf Dobelli's great essay about why this is such a good thing to do:
https://web.archive.org/web/20181219225833/http://www.dobelli.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Avoid_News_Part1_TEXT.pdf
Coming off his tenth point (news as status)I've long suspected that news just functions as kind of salacious gossip on the whole. I've got a pet theory it's something to do with propping up the petty bourgeoisie mindset to prop up the bourgeoisie on the whole... Something about how the breathless engagement with and production of said gossip encourages values like the hard work of staying informed, having an individualised curated intake, the dispassionate observation of it all...