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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 perfectly normal with an acute stress reaction, which contains anxiety, hyper-vigilance, greater startle response, grief and horror for the terrible events gone through by the victims along with their families and wonder about our very own safety which of our families. These emotions were normal.
Individuals who have experienced trauma in the past or individuals who have problems with existing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSDanxiety, depression and ) are more susceptible to the trauma and may experience exacerbations of the past PTSD or other symptoms.
Whenever people are traumatized, they think powerless. That powerless feeling could 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, money and aid - 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.
America is comparatively late towards 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 do 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 venues 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. As well as in our very own homes, Google and others are mining Big Data for patterns of Internet use that reveal details 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 (in other words, stating the positive and then acknowledging the negative) to prevent catastrophizing all contributes to lessening and resilience the odds of such acute stress reactions turning into PTSD.
Alan Manevitz, M.D. is actually a Psychiatrist in New York, where he keeps a private practice. Dr. Manevitz is actually a clinical associate professor at Payne Whitney-Weill Cornell Medical Center, an attending psychiatrist at Ny Presbyterian and Lennox Hill Hospitals, and teaches in the Weill-Cornell Medical School.
Dr. Manevitz has become named among the Top Doctors in the usa 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.
Psychiatrist New York
