The last few weeks have been very difficult ones in America. First, there was the Buffalo, New York shootings where a gunmen set out to shoot and kill Black people in a grocery store. He succeeded in killing 10. Next there was the Uvalde Texas shootings where a shooter went into a school and killed 19 fourth grade children and two teachers. Coming off the last two years of COVID and social unrest, employees continue to reel.
It seems as if one thing after another keeps happening, and this repeated direct or indirect traumatization can lead to stress and mental health issues. To further complicate things, social media and the news in all forms, continues to replay the events, further re-traumatizing us. And the fact that these events are not the first ones to have occurred and the perceived inaction of those in power to stop this is only adding to the anxiety. As a point of reference, this is the 27th school shooting this year.
