Jimmy Kimmel on Elementary School Shooting in Uvalde, Texas

"Not a time for moments of silence" (by itself, again and again) - Jimmy Kimmel tonight, tears in his eyes

So tonight I saw this and compelled to come out of web retirement and update my resource on Children and Violence in order to share this video, mostly. Because nothing much has changed since Columbine, Parkland, Sandy Hook, one after another. (Yes, "woke", there are many mindful Americans who are equally baffled by the religion of guns before human life, and why we've just let the thoughts & prayers be the only result time after time.

So I updated that page, which - let me check if it's more than zero... yes, 101 people (or bots) visited today, not bad for a 21-year old page, unpublicized or promoted. I put it up in the immediate days following the attack, while working with children who witnessed it, teachers, and counselors. With PTSD like everyone else. Auto-pilot for a long while, right brain hazy and horrified and driven to do SOMETHING. In the next days I saw children's drawings and heard how they brought cookies to the firemen at the pit barricades.

Everyone can do something. besides sending thoughts and prayers. (Not that these are bad. But things much change! No?)

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[wonder if anyone reads past the new normal 7secs attention span? If so, congratulations, thanks, and this is 7th-inning stretch]

Fast forward, Columbine. Got me back to pursuing reasons and solutions for violence. (Spoiler: It's exponentially worse now)
But I worked with APA (psychology) and MTV (media/teen audience) giving talks on "Warning Signs" of suicide/depression etc..

A few years of calm between mass shootings. Fast forward again, it's now a near-weekly event. Four years of #TrumpVirus added to existing PTSD amplified by COVID & a division and tribalism plus a big cult of conspiracy & alternative facts. Thank you #Fox/ #GQP)

Here we are. A depleted and tribal Congress ministering to NRA and #TrumpVirus, deadlocked and gone for va-cay ...
Anything at all - pressure on OUR employees, supposedly working for WE the PEOPLE - "representatives". (scary thought too)

#StaySafe #Violence #guns #massacres #psychology #Children #PTSD #Fenichel #USCongress #culture

Take 2, with correct url/web address...

FWIW… I started this on Sept 12, 2001, as I sat in a daze trying to kick-start my ability to think and act, after the WTC attack.

Children and Violence

I updated this page through around 2013, but by then the mass shootings were happening routinely and I simply could not keep up. Which is a good indication that a new “norm”, with desensitization and was underway. As others began years of PTSD…

20+ years on, again and again and again…
And “only in America!”. Streaming live in a Congress near you.
On auto-replay, with no way out, it seems.

#MakeAmericaSaneAgain #violence #trauma #PTSD #children #MentalHealth #fenichel