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What is a "witness trauma", how to recognize it and help yourself and others?

Every day, the news is filled with stories of people who have suffered from the war. Ruined houses. Deaths. Torture. We are looking at all this and feel different emotions: fear, pain, pity, anxiety, denial.
Perhaps every one of us had thought: “I could have been in their place.”
What is “witness trauma,” and how to detect it and help yourself and others?