Quote - have no idea how they felt in New York, it was difficult to share the pain with them.

I feel sad when anyone suffers, infact I almost feel physically sick if I see anyone/thing getting hurt, but this detachment, when it's far away sometimes bothers me. Why the hell can't I feel something.

Maybe it's the media, TV or the movies that have created this detachment.. A kinda desensitization in effect.

Am I the only one? Or do others feel desensitized to things like this when they happen far from your own living space?

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No, you aren't the only one..its fairly common and its also a kind of "defense" mechanism that your mind puts up to help you when you have empathic tendencies or you are empathic.

I live in Missouri and I remember more about the fed building that was bombed in Oklahoma City than I do about the TT.  And I watched both on tv...but I was much closer to Ok....plus I was having a hard time believing it was americans that did it and it just seemed to affect me more being in my own backyard.

 

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