BBC News
By Megan Lawton and Levi Jouavel
Newsbeat Reporters
Flat, disheartened, numb. Just three emotions you might be experiencing at the moment.
And if so, you re not alone.
Many of us struggle to process such huge numbers, which get bigger by the day. Carrying on as normal seems inadequate, but what else can you do? No-one is a bad person if they feel a bit numb. It s self-protection, says psychologist and author Dr Meg Arroll.
She tells Radio 1 Newsbeat that lots of us are suffering from compassion fatigue , after living through a pandemic for so long. Normally you would only see this in doctors and nurses. But because we have these Covid statistics every day and we hear the stories of people who ve passed away every day, feeling numb is a self-preservation process that stops things becoming overwhelming.