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...Even some of firefighters and police who were visiting the Medical Examiner?s office nearby or colleagues in our hospital told me they were refusing any counseling because they were afraid they would be labeled as having "psych problems," and lose their positions. So we get back into normal routines at the clinic - appointments, prescriptions, officious memos chastising us for being behind on record keeping. At first it was hard to imagine sitting with my old patients, until I actually did and heard their stories. I was as amazed by the stories of resilience as I was by those from...
...tells me he is glad she?s okay. "That?s my only story," he says, and asks for his prescription for Haldol, an anti-psychotic medication. A man with an almost crippling fear of leaving his apartment comes to his appointment. He is reorganizing his closets, "to do something normal." My ten-year-old patient recites the plot of every horror movie she has ever seen, complete with severed body parts. She acts out a puppet show in which scary monsters eat her, and then me. She wonders if kids can get drafted. My gentle Buddhist patient from China comes...
Organized by the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian and Transgendered and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) and Beyond Our Normal Differences (BOND), events included a movie screening, an interfaith prayer service, and an Internet chat...
...warning certainly provoked a reaction, but was it a responsible warning, or the work of an agency unnecessarily scaring the populace? Moments after they delivered this latest warning, public officials were urging us to go back to our "normal lives." Do we believe them, or should we alter our plans for the weekend, change our lives to suit our newfound fears? And just what are our normal lives in this new world, anyway...
...accomplishments, most of us are also deeply insecure about whether we’re good enough, whether we’re the world-changers everyone tells us we’re supposed to be, and whether we will be valuable if we’re just normal people in 30 years...