One must be honest about the risk of "compassion fatigue." In the digital age, we are confronted with traumatic survivor stories constantly. If a campaign is relentless in its intensity, audiences will disengage to protect their own mental health.
: Even without using names, campaigns must be careful not to include "identifying characteristics"—such as a specific church or workplace—that could inadvertently expose a survivor in a small community. Survivor-Led Models One must be honest about the risk of "compassion fatigue
To understand why survivor stories work, we must first understand why statistics fail. Psychologist Paul Slovic coined the term "psychic numbing" to describe humanity's inability to process mass suffering. We can feel deep empathy for a single orphan, but we feel almost nothing for the statistic of "1 million orphans." One must be honest about the risk of "compassion fatigue