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Stress Reactions May Turn Into PTSD

Everyone watching horrific events - seeing bombings andbloodied and mangled, crying people on TV and also the Internet - experience trauma. It is normal to get an acute stress reaction, which contains anxiety, hyper-vigilance, greater startle response, grief and horror for your terrible events felt by the victims and their families and wonder about our personal safety and that of our families. These emotions were normal.

People who have experienced trauma previously or those who have problems with existing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSDanxiety, ) and depression are definitely more vulnerable to the trauma and might experience exacerbations of their past PTSD or any other symptoms.

Whenever people are traumatized, they feel powerless. That powerless feeling can become maladaptive feelings of helplessness that become depression, panic and anxiety. Or we become angry to empower ourselves. Being proactive is adaptive; that is why there was such an outpouring of spontaneous offers of memorials, aid and money - the desire to do something on 9/11 resulted in lines around the block as people tried to donate their own blood in order to help.

The Usa is relatively late for the game in getting used to living with the cognitive dissonance of dialectical opposites: wanting ourselves to feel safe yet wanting our freedom and privacy to accomplish whatever we want, when we want, and just how you want. We cringe at encroachments or discussions on our independence: national identity cards, increased screenings at public venues of gathering, profiling - but, we want to feel more secure. We fear totalitarianism but we are voting more monies to create more shades of "1984" than ever before. 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. And even in our own Google, others and homes are mining Big Data for patterns of Internet use that reveal information regarding an individual user or families.

Obtaining the natural capacity or learning the skills of perspective, understanding to use probability/possibility thinking and using reality (quite simply, stating the positive and after that acknowledging the negative) to prevent catastrophizing all results in lessening and resilience the chances of such acute stress reactions turning into PTSD.

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