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by seotut2 2256 days ago
Part of your brain is responsible for filtering out irrelevant information from your stimuli. There are large classes of mental illnesses that have elevated sensory sensitivity as a symptom, which is what you are describing. It's also related to affect regulation.

People will say that you are watching too many news etc. I think there's a deeper issue. Education has absolutely 0 to do with it, this phenomena is not related to the conscious level of the mind.