I have no idea what to say or do about the Connecticut school shooting. I woke up this morning thinking about the families. I can't really imagine just suddenly losing your child like that. A whole classroom of people just gone. How will that school recover? What will happen to those people who experienced this trauma?
One of the coping mechanisms I use for my anxiety is to push aside the disaster thoughts or scenarios that I tend to have by saying, "Maybe that will happen; maybe it won't." For some reason this kind of stops me from perseverating on long stories about death. My mantra seems weird, but it works for me - We could all die at any time. There's no point in wasting time fixating and being afraid.
But I never really logically expect the bad stuff to happen. Why does this stuff keep happening?
Horrible. I'm not thinking about it, pushing it out of my mind.
ReplyDeleteI think media plays a role in this madness especially as I read about another mass shooting this morning.
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