News websites and social media make it next to impossible to avoid the steady drumbeat of political earthquakes and gruesome images of war. All the apocalyptic geopolitical predictions and the imagery of people weeping over dead bodies in warzones leaves a mark on your psyche. A 2021 study found that just two minutes of news about the pandemic was enough kill a person’s optimism and trigger “immediate and significant reductions in positive affect.” “So from a psychological standpoint you should take breaks from taking it all in, particularly images,” advises Nathalie Krahe, a member of the Pro…