There are four really helpful things that target your issues. Wherever I start feeling overwhelmed, anxious, sad, angry, helpless to influence things in the world... I do all of the following: 1. Stay physically busy. To the point that your heart rate gets up a bit(not too much though), and your muscles feel that glow at the end of the day. I don't know how long this takes for you, everyone is different. But just do some good old physical exertion that is above your norm. Be sure you are walking enough to circulate your lymphatic system, too. It's extremely important. This will get any gunk out of your system, increase feel good hormones, and improve your physical fitness. So not only do you actually feel better, but the mental knowledge that you improved today instead of degenerated by not doing anything physical gives an extra dividend. It also helps quality of sleep. I like to make the physical exertion productive, like home improvement or husbandry related on the homestead, so I get another layer of feeling accomplished, useful, contributional. This battles the helpless feeling that I sometimes get when thinking about world problems. 2. Eat better. When I begin feeling gross I like to juice, particularly with beets, cabbage, and celery. I don't like them but they are very good for you. I put other things in there like ginger, apples, carrots, spinach, kale, cucumber, etc. But those first three are really good for you. If I juice I usually have less desire for bread, noodles, sugars, all the bad things. And my elimination is better, too. Ties in with the helpful lymphatic system to keep me from feeling physically poor. 3. Get away from negative mediums. If you're watching TV, reading modern writing, or listening to music with lyrics, whatever it is, it probably continues stimulation of the awareness of how bad things are and how it's so large a problem you can do nothing. Cut it all out and only allow a small amount if you must. Pay attention to your physical and emotional status while consuming whatever you choose to continue with, and stop when you feel any negative impressions. This doesn't mean that you can't handle it or that you should never face things that make you feel negative, just that for right now you are taking a break and putting yourself back into a good frame of health. When I'm doing the other three things I have very little time for any of these things and I don't notice that I'm cutting back. When I'm not doing the other things I feel the loss of the poal, news, various entertainment. So you should keep busy so it doesn't feel like an isolation punishment to stay away from poal or whatever the normal outlet is. 4. I saved this one for last because most people balk. It should really be first. God. He is your creator. Living without him is like a car trying to run without fuel. The entire world is like a massive tsunami wall of water trying to block you from knowing him. It throws a million distractions, alternatives, false spiritual concepts, utter contempt and denial, in your face to keep you away and ashamed to explore your creator and his word. The world tells you that you should be a strong man and shoulder the world and you're weak if you can't. But this is a lie. None of us can shoulder that burden except Christ. And he already has. Explore your relationship with God. He will take your burdens and your will breathe the first breath of your life. And there will be no more stress and anxiety over worldly things which are trying their best to smother you and everyone else who has an ounce of virtue. Get busy, friend. These four things will fix you up and you'll be better than ever.