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Stress Reactions May Turn Into PTSD
Everyone watching horrific events - seeing bombings andmangled and bloodied, crying people on TV and the Internet - experience trauma. It is normal to get an acute stress reaction, which includes anxiety, hyper-vigilance, greater startle response, grief and horror for the terrible events felt by the victims along with their families and wonder about our personal safety and that of our own families. These emotions were normal.
Those who have experienced trauma in the past or people who suffer from existing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety and depression are definitely more vulnerable to the trauma and may experience exacerbations of the past PTSD or some other symptoms.
When individuals are traumatized, they think powerless. That powerless feeling may become maladaptive feelings of helplessness that turn into anxiety, panic and depression. Or we become angry to empower ourselves. In order to help, being proactive is adaptive; that is why there was such an outpouring of spontaneous offers of aid, money and memorials - the desire to do something on 9/11 resulted in lines around the block as people tried to donate their own blood.
The Usa is comparatively late to the game in becoming accustomed to living with the cognitive dissonance of dialectical opposites: wanting ourselves to feel safe yet wanting our privacy and freedom to accomplish whatever we want, when we want, and how you want. We cringe at encroachments or discussions on our independence: national identity cards, increased screenings at public places of gathering, profiling - but, we also want to feel safer. Before, we fear totalitarianism but we are voting more monies to create more shades of "1984" than ever. We are comforted to see the new technologies of face recognition and infrared detection, to have a cooperative citizenry provide the video to help bring the progenitors of these heinous crimes to justice, but at the same time, we realize we are coming under video surveillance "for our own good" by third parties everywhere but in our own homes. As well as in our own homes, others and Google are mining Big Data for patterns of Internet use that reveal information about an individual user or families.
Getting the natural capacity or learning the relevant skills of perspective, understanding to make use of probability/possibility thinking and ultizing reality (in other words, stating the positive and after that acknowledging the negative) in order to avoid catastrophizing all contributes to resilience and lessening the percentages of those acute stress reactions turning into PTSD.
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