Word: trauma
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...levels of pain. But it can be hard not to. Even I call my own family back in Minnesota, and they talk about how traumatized they all are. I want to say to them, 'I've been working seven days a week on this at the center of the trauma since Sept. 11!'" Courtney and her colleagues are so worried about the looming holiday that they are posting a special primer on their website to help families get through their gatherings unscathed...
Along with the reaffirmation of family values, there has been a much-discussed reaffirmation of faith, a religious revival triggered by trauma that saw churches and synagogues and mosques flooded with worshippers in the days following the attacks. But how do you measure the breadth and depth of rediscovered belief? The American Bible Society says sales of Bibles since Sept. 11 are up 42% over the same period last year. Zales Jewelers is selling more crosses. The Religion News Service says Koran sales in the U.S. have quintupled since the attacks. Even after the initial burst of fervor subsided, many...
...imagining living without toothbrushes in Loker Commons, mentally filling out bloated insurance claims for the stuff we would lose. Each of us fantasized about the great excuse we would have to get extensions on those pesky problem sets, papers and tests—or maybe, because of the mental trauma, we could be excused from the assignments altogether...
After much trauma in Wicker Park, the cast of MTV’s “The Real World” finally moved out on Friday, but a lot of them will be sticking around for a festive gathering at the Dragon Room on the 16th, so they’re not really getting out of Chicago for another...
...that you could just get a single moment of sleep without feeling like you were being hurt all over again? I thought UHS might be better. I sat there all night waiting for someone to talk to. And then she came and told me that I had experienced a trauma and that the extra-strength-for-trauma sleeping pills would make it better. I must admit that sleeping for a change was nice. But I couldn’t help thinking that amnesia would be better...