I feel you on this. I've had to make a new box in my head for things which otherwise take up all my thoughts and leave me similarly hopeless and crying:
- Climate change
- COVID19 (and future pandemics)
- War (most specifically in Ukraine right now)
The box is "things that have or might directly affect me and definitely negatively affect so many people but that I have no control over".
It's a box of awful huge things that are too big for me. I do what I can, but.. 🤷