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How to cope when tragedy fatigue makes you feel heartless

My coworkers are all posting about the school shooting but I cannot bring myself to engage with it anymore and I feel like a terrible person for being numb

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Compassion has limits and protecting those limits is not moral failure but necessary survival.

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