A few weeks (days?) ago I made a post in this sub asking advice on how I should go about dealing with the news cycle (coronavirus, politics, social unrest, economic uncertainty) terrorizing me and occupying a great portion of my thoughts on a daily basis. The response I received was basically to try and limit my viewings of news articles and things related to current events to a bare minimum, something like 5-10 minutes per week.

Now, this all happened before the recent attack on the U.S. Capitol (I live in the New York City metropolitan area) last week. After those events, my mental health has deteriorated even further, to the point where last night I experienced what I think was a night terror. I woke up at around 3:00am in almost pitch darkness, and I could hear disembodied voices that weren't my own or any of my family members' voices. I felt physically paralyzed (I've experienced sleep paralysis in the past, but this felt slightly different than previous episodes) and I distinctly remember feeling a abject, visceral kind of terror that I hadn't experienced since childhood - I'm 24 years old.

I'm able to focus on certain work-related tasks for the most part during the daytime, but I do get distracted easily and have been in the habit of checking the news almost obsessively to see if any new development has come in. 

I suppose I just need advice or reassurance or something, because currently I am really feeling unwell.