Taylor Lorenz says she has "severe PTSD" from being a journalist

Because I’m Batman!

 

It’s classic deflection by the right wing outrage machine. Awful person says awful things. Response is — how dare you dox her? Does the radical left have no shame?

 

I don't think I would call it PTSD, but years of covering crime definitely left a mark on my psyche.

I once arrived at a gruesome crime scene very soon after police got the dispatch and saw up close a decapitated prostitute. Occasionally the image of her sitting upright and headless in the cab of a pickup just randomly pops up in my mind.

There are other traumas, too, like the smell of burning human flesh that come back from time to time. I stopped working as a journalist in 2007.

 

Those freaks that LibsofTikTok "doxxes" are doing a good job of sound like freaks on their own.

 

Yep. I could’ve written this post almost word for word.

I covered a homicide in which a daughter shot her father. I got to the scene and the father was sitting in his chair, dead, cigarette still in his hand.

Had to write on a 1-month-old who was killed by his uncle. Or the 19-year-old who was found after years of starvation and neglect by his adopted “parents.”

I don’t know what the term is for it, but it’s definitely haunting. Still. And I’m 13 years removed from the business.

 

When I started, nearly 50 years ago, I was on call for overnight cops and fire and rescue in a major market NBC affiliate newsroom.

I saw some awful things. Awful things.

I see them still.

 

She didn’t deny the doxxing part…

 

Deflection … projection … wash, rinse, repeat …

 

There's plenty of editorializing . . . and misrepresentation.

 

The term is PTSD.

You and anyone else who has sustained this kind of repetitive psychological trauma that keeps showing up years later should find someone to talk with, other than on this board. A professional. Therapist, pastor, priest, someone.

 

It's kind of funny, but I had a "rough patch" as a journo - covering a lot of death, funerals - I pitched my editors on some stories about grief, and grief counseling. Probably mostly for my own psyche, but I talked to people with the police who do death notifications, the military and how they did what they did. Did a story on a camp for kids dealing with grief. It helped a lot. But watching kids learning how to channel their grief of a lost parent or other loved was one of the most emotional days I had as a journalist.