Exactly. While it's good to prepare mentally for the future, it's seems like the real problem is that the threat has been blown away out of porportion: The war

Exactly. While it's good to prepare mentally for the future, it's seems like the real problem is that the threat has been blown away out of porportion: The war escalating out of Ukraine, nuclear weapons being deployed, someone roughly in their thirties being drafted. None of that is a given, and some of it is highly unlikely. OP might want to limit how much news they're taking in, or change sources to something less sensational.