The only personal solution is to make horror mundane. But this is hardly a solution if it involves stamping on compassion. This must be why so many symptoms associated with post traumatic stress are rising. We now see increased parental anxiety. Stress-related illnesses are widespread even though material life is more comfortable than ever.
Insomnia is rife.
So too is irritability in the shape of numerous 'rages'. Perhaps even fictional violence and dismemberment represents attempts to master this anxiety. Mass society brings mass deaths and people will want to know about them. Modern technology inevitably makes us witnesses. But these psychological elements need recognition.