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By KATIE KINDELAN, ABC News
(NEW YORK) — From the deadliest day in the United States since the COVID-19 pandemic began to the mob of violent pro-Trump protesters that stormed the U.S. Capitol building, the news on Wednesday alone was almost too much to bear.
It piled on top of a seemingly never-ending drumbeat of grim news that has taken us through the nearly yearlong coronavirus pandemic, a tense election season and ongoing racial unrest across the country.
The news has constantly played out live on our TVs, phones and tablets.
“Many communities and families have felt besieged the past four years and then we had COVID-19 and then watching these images,” Dr. Janet Taylor, a psychiatrist, said Thursday on