Suggestion: Cut the news out of your life, especially as you live in America, where it is nothing less than a professional fear mongering industry. I make a cursorary glance of the online BBC news headlines, for no more than a few minutes. Other than that, I do not allow the news in my life. I don't look online, and television news is banned from my home. It is a destructive tide of relentless negativity that is not an accurate reflection of the real world in any way.