Clive Myrie says certain images from the Ukraine Russia war will never leave him.
The BBC journalist has been reporting from both the capital Kyiv as well as the UK, and he admits it is sometimes very hard to switch off from what he has seen both on the ground and in videos.
Clive has been moved by the people he has been reporting on, and in one viral clip shared previously, he shed a tear as he reported from Kyiv for the BBC News at 10 earlier on this month.
He was forced to leave the capital and returned to the UK but he has vowed to go back to Ukraine.
Asked how he switches off, he said on BBC's Morning Live: "I am able to compartmentalise. Obviously there are images and there are things that you see that will stick with you, possibly for the rest of your life.
"I think if you're not able to disentangle yourself from what you see during the day and what you experience, later on in the night when you're with your family and friends then I think there is potentially a problem."
He added: "Touch wood, I'm still able to do that so I do like a nice glass of wine.
"I love music and classical music and jazz in particular. It's about trying to disengage yourself from all of that other stuff because I am a three dimensional human being, my life just doesn't resolve around the news."
Clive had previously explained his devastation at having to leave the city.
"It was a long, day of driving and queuing to get out of Kyiv. Imagine having to leave all you know in a hurry because you’re being shelled! What do you pack? Do pets come too? It’s freezing cold and you pray those in neighbouring countries will welcome you, not despise you!" he wrote on Twitter as he shared a photo from his journey.
"My thoughts are with the 1million who’ve fled # Ukraine because they might be killed.
"The millions who fled #syria and many other millions escaping repression, poverty, war. They all pray they’ll be welcomed in other countries as human beings. That’s all they ask 2/2 #refugees."
