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- It might just be my attitude (Probably is, so take this with a few grains of salt) but a lot of the time when I'm talking to my counselor, we come to the point that I just care too much about stuff that is important/tragic, but has no direct effect on my life. Example
And a lot of his advice for dealing with these things amounts to 'Just don't think about it.'
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That's terrible. Empathy and acknowledgement make a difference. 'Thinking about it' is 90 percent of the reason I post anything on hubski. I want people who follow me to think about things. My facebook wall looks like hubski. My conversations sound like hubski. My friends assuredly get tired of it -- but gradually their behavior starts to change. It makes a difference.
If you go into therapy (which I would never do; I admit to a bias) with the personal philosophy that awareness of the human condition matters and are told instead to shut yourself off ... walk out. Walk out without paying a dime.