Word: panic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Disaster reactions may range from short-lived disturbances, e.g., heavy sweating, trembling or nausea, to numbness and depression or overactivity, marked by joking, fast talk, an abundance of useless suggestions and activities. Occasionally, there may be physical reactions such as severe vomiting or hysterical paralysis, as well as blind panic, which is uncommon but dangerous because it is contagious. For all cases, several basic rules of mental first aid apply...
...Genuinely panic-stricken disaster victims who cannot be brought around quickly should be segregated to prevent general panic, even if this means using two or three workers in good condition to isolate one frantic victim...
...Restraint should be firm but not brutal or punitive. The widespread belief that a casualty in panic can be jolted out of his confusion by slapping him in the face or dousing him with cold water ... is unsound...
Conditions of Survival. "We of the free world should avoid panic and provocation . . . We should be 'trigger-ready' without being 'trigger-happy' . . . The kind of coexistence with Communism which I have been describing is not. of course, 'peaceful,' in the sense that it is founded on friendship and cooperation. It is hardly more than mutual toleration...
...Movements may be as formless as a shifting fog, as destructive as a stream of lava, as senseless as a panic-stricken mob, as regimented to evil ends as Naziism, as suicidal as the movements of the Gadarene swine. The ecumenical movement is a movement of free men all in one direction. It is a movement of churches toward their own center, a concentration of Christendom on Christ. Because we see through a glass darkly, because we get in each other's way a good deal, because we are sinners and because we are involved in the world...