Experts: Constant exposure to coverage of violence can be harmful

Demoralization. That’s the word that Dr. Jeffrey Deitz used to describe the effect of attacks like the one that killed 11 worshipers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh over the weekend. Acts of violence in places that are supposed to be safe — such as synagogues or churches or schools — are also assaults on our long-held standards of right and wrong, said Deitz, assistant professor of psychiatry at Quinnipiac University’s Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine. “If you keep piling on these tragedies one after the other, at first people become numb,” Deitz said. “Then there’s this disillusionment of there being no sacred place or no safe place. The word I use is demoralization.

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