Helpful Tips Provided by American Psychological Association
Talk About It: Connect with someone you trust on how you are feeling. Receiving support and reassurance can help with the overwhelming emotions that are coming up.
Strive for Balance: this extremely hard event can make things feel hopeless. Try to find a balance between talking about this and finding ways to think of what is meaningful and comforting to you.
Take a Break: Over exposure to this event can cause a lot of stress, please take breaks from all of the difficult information to process.
Honor Your Feelings: it is normal to feel a range of emotions after a traumatic event you may start to psychically feel your stress by being exhausted and sore.
Be Mindful: Eat healthy, get rest, drink water, breathing exercises.
Help Others Do Something Productive: Sometimes focusing on tasks and helping others can help us feel better as well.
*If you have recently lost friends or family in this or other tragedies... Grief is a process for some it will be staying home for others it will be getting back into a routine, there will be many ups and downs. Give yourself time and grace to process and heal.