You're listening to the Daily Article podcast for Friday, June 17th, 2022, written by Dr. Jim Denison.

There has been another church shooting, this time in the Birmingham, Alabama area. Two people were killed and another person was injured yesterday evening in an attack at St.

St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Vestavia Hills. The suspect who has not yet been identified

publicly is in custody. When I saw the news, I had to decide whether or not to report it. If

it seems mass shootings or daily occurrences, that's because it's true. The gun violence

archive has counted at least

246 mass shootings through early June. Since this is the 168th day of the year, we're

averaging 1.5 such tragedies every day. In a culture as broken as ours, compassion fatigue is real.

How many of the signs are you experiencing? Feeling exhausted physically

and psychologically. Feeling helpless, hopeless or powerless. Feeling irritable, angry, sad, or numb?

A sense of being detached or having decreased pleasure in activities. Ruminating about the

suffering of others and feeling anger towards the events or people causing the suffering.

Blaming yourself and having thoughts of not having done enough to help the people who are suffering. A decreased sense of personal and professional accomplishment.

A change in your worldview or spirituality.

Physical symptoms including sleep and appetite disturbances, nausea, and dizziness.

It can feel especially overwhelming to be apparent in these days.

Unsurprisingly, in these crisis-filled times, 44% of non-parents ages 18 to 49, say they

are not likely to have children.

This is an increase of 7 percentage points in 4 years.

According to Pew Research Center,

the reasons range from just not wanting kids to concerns about finances, climate change,

and quote, the state of the world.

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