vicarious trauma


trauma that is delivered vicariously by the media (tv, film, books, newspapers, the net,etc) and leaves the world in a constant state of shock, which leads to a tendency towards illness and a lot of over-eating. as we do not experience events dirctly, it is devilishly hard to expunge the horror.
we’ve all experienced the vicarious trauma of the tsunami, of war, of tragedies depicted vividly by reporters.

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