It's actually fine to not look at the news.
Ignore the news for a day, a week, a month or as long as you need to. It's completely fine.
You might feel a sense of responsibility as an informed citizen to keep up to date on current events. But subjecting yourself to constant exposure to upsetting minutiae about things that are far away that you have no influence or control over can be traumatic. And avoiding that painful experience is not the same as avoiding a direct personal problem that you need to face and deal with. It's actually a healthy, sensible choice to make.
Read a book, take a walk, bake some bread, call a friend, whatever.
Just don't look at the news if you don't feel up to it.
The world will be fine if you are not up to date on the latest shameless palaver. You might instead focus on some of the many really important and nice things that you actually can manage and negotiate that are much closer to home.
