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CoSo? Just a caring reminder that you do not have to immerse yourself in the details of other people's trauma in order to be empathic and helpful to them.
Sometimes folks think they need to fully see and engage with traumatic content--but this can be a barrier to effective helping when the time for helping comes.
So please, know yourself and act accordingly.
This isn't to discourage folks from being aware and informed--but be discerning regarding the degree.
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The corollary is that if you are updating people about a previous issue that was posted here, give some quick summary. "Dad's doing much worse" makes people want to offer support, but don't make them scroll through two months of your posts to see what's up with Dad.
Kudos to the Cosonaut who has kept all her posts in a single thread.
It's great when we can be supportive of each other.
Thank you for this angle, too
I was speaking to the need for immersion into traumatic online content (war imagery, for example), not someone’s online sharing <3
@Valkyrie_D
Thank you for receiving my thoughts—I just see people inadvertently harming themselves and preventing their capacity to help :(