Compassion fatigue?

[damian_steele]

I don't know about you lot, but I am currently "disastered out". There just seem to have been so many major events recently:

The tsunami
the bird flu
the Iraq and Afghanistan wars
the earthquakes in Sumatra
the train bombings and other terrorist threats in London
the florida storms
the Louisianna storms
the oil prices rocketing and fuel price fluctuations
The Bali bombings
the Taiwan typhoon AND accompanying earthquake
the south American tropical storms, flooding and mud slides
the brush fires in California
the flooding in New Hampshire, USA
the huge fire burning the props and sets for Wallace & Grommit
the earthquake in Pakistan, India and Afghanistan

and on and on it goes.

Everybody living either in terror or in terrible conditions.
Everybody with their hands out and their eyes full of tears.

I'm finding it very hard to be sympathetic with anyone right now. It's just too hard to care about so much for so long.

Does anyone else feel this way or is it just me?

[Paulwillhappy]

NOT REALLY ? Having 3 Children & Lots of Friends and Family i have alot of Room for compassion & Sympathy.

[dulwich-herbs]

Yep! I know exactly what you mean. Doesn't mean I'll stop donating... (forgotten the name of the fund.... not shoebox.. but something similar... ), but I no longer get upset seeing pictures of dead bodies on the news anymore.

[damian_steele]

NOT REALLY ? Having 3 Children & Lots of Friends and Family i have alot of Room for compassion & Sympathy.

So you'll be giving generously to the disaster relief appeal at
https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.html I assume?

I'm also wondering why you included the angry icon? Does it upset you that I feel this way? If so, why?

[altogethernow123]

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I'm finding it very hard to be sympathetic with anyone right now. It's just too hard to care about so much for so long.

Does anyone else feel this way or is it just me?

Not like you DS.

I feel okay, because they are not going to go away (those sorts of events you listed) well not in the forseeable future anyway, they may even get worse, before they get better.
Mind you Wallace & Grommit that's a new one on me.

[funky_fudge_factory]

disasters ARE rife at the moment aren't they? Daren't look at the bbc website any more in fear of another "disaster"

Maybe this is it... the END OF THE WORRRRRRRLD !!!!

*dons a sandwich board and grows a beard and roams around declaring the end of the world is nigh*

[damian_steele]

I'm also wondering why you included the angry icon? Does it upset you that I feel this way? If so, why?

Oh, come on Happy willy. You spent all that time with this thread open but still didn't reply?!

Why leave me in the dark?

Are you saying that you have all this compasion and sympathy for everyone else, but you can spare none for me? You just want to leave me here feeling somewhat offended and wondering what you meant?

That's not being a stand up kinda guy, now is it?

[damian_steele]

Maybe this is it... the END OF THE WORRRRRRRLD !!!!

*dons a sandwich board and grows a beard and roams around declaring the end of the world is nigh*

Lol!

Now that I'd pay to see.

[Miss Whiplash]

NOT REALLY ? Having 3 Children & Lots of Friends and Family i have alot of Room for compassion & Sympathy.

I will go with that

[rightcharlie]

The only thing we can ever really change is our very own reactions to these things.



"Two men look out through the bars, one sees mud and one sees stars..."