I quit doing it for several reasons...
1) I could not separate my empathetic response, from the rest of my life. The shit I heard that people had done to their own family members, children and spouses, haunted me every waking minute (and many of the sleeping ones too). Keep in mind, I was required to treat both victims and perpetrators of very serious crimes. Many of them sex crimes. So I worked closely with victims of rape, sex abuse, as well as perpetrators of all of the above too.
2) I could no longer enjoy my own sex life, because I heard way too many stories of sexual violence, perpetrated against the innocent and defenseless. I started to feel uncomfortable with sex and my own sexuality, because I had intrusive thoughts of the trauma of others, every time I felt like expressing sexuality. So vicarious trauma.
3) Many of the people in charge were not handling Obama's healthcare changes in any kind of logical, or responsible way. Leading to mass case overloads, as well as leading indirectly to members of my community, who needed serious medication and support, not receiving it. This indirectly lead to at least one stabbing that I know of, but likely countless other cases of self harm, and abuse. Likely a suicide or two also.
I fully support healthcare reform. However the way it was handled, by the county and the mental healthcare leaders in my specific community, was piss poor. I turned to adderall as a way to cope, and eventually even that, would not drown out the raw pain I was deeply exposed to everyday. I cared very deeply about my clients, and felt that I could no longer, honestly, serve them.
In response to this hanging story; I do not believe it.
That's is classic response
I saw the thread title but didn't bother delving into it. 
