Most have never left the comfort of their big city offices, but a growing number of reporters and editors are claiming to suffer trauma from watching and posting violent videos on news sites, according to a new study of media and human rights workers.

Their coping mechanisms can be just as bad: heavy drinking, binge-eating and sex. Said the study: “Unhealthy coping mechanisms included frequent one night stands or, as a documentary journalist called it: ‘Head-down sex with different people every night.'”