Infinite Scroll: Don't Log Off


The past few months have been just pummeled with bad news: Disastrous wildfires in Australia, a novel coronavirus pandemic, and police violence over racism, and its various ripple effects.

Social media has been a grimly kept log of all it all, in real-time. If you have the means, then you have non-stop access to the powerful, the violent, the overwhelming. All you have to do is scroll through your newsfeed.

It can lead to "feed fatigue," and the cracks are beginning to show.

There’s compassion fatigue, a condition sometimes experienced by first-responders who feel disconnected from the suffering of others after exposure to tragedy.

Read more and hear from Dr. Brandale Mills Cox here.

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