If you effectively "turn off the news" in some sense, life goes on a lot better often as not. I don't watch news, I do read it on line, it's faster, and I can ignore some item about what Taylor Swift did or said. Some claimed the world would end when Trump was elected, some claimed that when Biden was elected, but in reality, life goes on in most ways. (I know inflation has been bad, COVID was a shock, and a few other items).
I have to say I've learned to ignore or minimize most of the news these days, especially the items that are "social".