Struggling with how to process upsetting stories from the news

[Alexandra84]

Currently sat feeling so upset and low after endless awful stories in the news..many ones related to children and SA…I don’t how these things pop up on my news feed-it was a stupid Daily Mail article on my FB feed, and it’s just so heartbreaking.
I feel so overwhelmed and just want to cry for those poor children. It makes any kind of first world problems just seem to inferior.
Possibly in my naive own life, I didn’t know some of these things took place.
How on earth do other people process this? So many thoughts racing around my head and I just look at my own children and my heart breaks.
Apologies for such a mundane read, I just don’t know how to process it all.

Just block them from your newsfeed if it’s affecting you.

If you click on stories, your feed will keep showing you similar things, and if you click on those, it doubles down and shows you a ton of it.

You need to start ignoring it and not clicking and if it's something upsetting, click the three dots in the top right of a story and choose "not interested". This will get you out the cycle of being bombarded with negative stories all day.

You thank your lucky stars that you had no idea that these things happen, you hug your children tight and make sure they know that you will always believe them, then you don’t read articles or watch programmes containing references to it.