having most of my feelings about the coronavirus right now so I can function later this is not a threat I'm mentally equipped to deal with the amount of grief for the dying and quarantined is not an amount of grief I am equipped to feel
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the awareness of mass tragedy without mass, synchronized grieving or the capacity for such feels wrong deeply wrong I don't mean morally wrong. I mean dysphoric. I want to crawl out of my skin because I can neither help nor feel *enough*
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it feels like a handful of times when I first started to grok the scope of the holocaust too much pain for my body to do the things it is compelled to do when it knows about the pain, without crippling myself
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Replying to @selentelechia
most of us who feel empathy have little choice but to block out the sheer scope of suffering beyond our immediate surroundings, i think i can't watch an ASPCA fundraising spot w/out either quickly changing the channel or feeling horrible for hours, even when I've donated
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