All the news about these shootings makes my day to day so much harder. It increases my guilt because I am aware my experience is nowhere even in the same realm as what those families and survivors are going through, and I feel so helpless to do anything about it. My therapist tells me to just stop caring, but doing that makes me feel like even more of a waste of space on this planet. I donate to activist groups, donate to charities, donate to gofundme’s, but I never feel like I can do enough to make a difference, which deepens my cycles of hopelessness. 

Anyone else experience this and what do you do to cope? My day to day rescue meds don’t help when it comes to major events like this.