I can't handle seeing or reading about bad things happening to small children. I avoid websites where I might see pictures or headlines about it (which pretty much limits my web browsing to the NYTimes and a few select subreddits). But last night I was just scrolling down my FB news feed, like you do, and one of my friends had posted that picture from Syria.... you know the one. Boom, night ruined. Not only could I not stop thinking about that picture, it also reminded me of all the other terrible things I've read about happening to small children (including one tidbit from an article about a Nazi prison guard that will haunt my nightmares til I die) and I couldn't make the thoughts go away. I couldn't fall asleep until almost 130. Now I'm exhausted today and posting on Reddit instead of doing stuff I need to be doing, like work.Is this anxiety? I don't generally have a tendency towards anxiety or OCD-type behavior. And I don't worry about these things happening to my own children. I just can't stop thinking about and grieving for the babies who met these fates.I know Plan A is to just to not see this stuff in the first place, but if you can't avoid it, how do you make the thoughts stop? via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2nTGPsg
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