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Stress Reactions May Turn Into PTSD

Everyone watching horrific events - seeing bombings andmangled and bloodied, crying people on television and the Internet - experience trauma. It is normal to have an acute stress reaction, which contains anxiety, hyper-vigilance, greater startle response, horror and grief for your terrible events experienced by the victims along with their wonder and families about our very own safety and this of our families. These emotions were normal.

People who have experienced trauma previously or people who are afflicted by existing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSDdepression, anxiety and ) are definitely more susceptible to the trauma and might experience exacerbations with their past PTSD or any other symptoms.

Whenever people are traumatized, they feel powerless. That powerless feeling may 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 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 in order to help.

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 freedom and privacy to perform whatever we want, once we want, and just how we want. We cringe at encroachments or discussions on our independence: national identity cards, increased screenings at public places of gathering, profiling - but, we want to feel less risky. We fear totalitarianism but we are voting more monies to create more shades of "1984" than ever before. 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, even though 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. And even in our personal homes, others and Google are mining Big Data for patterns of Internet use that reveal information about someone user or families.

Obtaining the natural capacity or learning the relevant skills of perspective, understanding to utilize probability/possibility thinking and ultizing reality (quite simply, stating the positive and after that acknowledging the negative) in order to avoid catastrophizing all contributes to resilience and lessening the chances of those acute stress reactions turning into PTSD.

Alan Manevitz, M.D. is a Psychiatrist in Ny, where he maintains a private practice. Dr. Manevitz is a clinical associate professor at Payne Whitney-Weill Cornell Medical Center, an attending psychiatrist at Ny Presbyterian and Lennox Hill Hospitals, and teaches at the Weill-Cornell Medical School.

Dr. Manevitz has become named amongst the Top Doctors in America by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., Ny Time’s Super Doctors, New York City Magazine’s Best Psychiatrists in New York, and Best Doctors of America.

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