Word: trauma
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...hour waiting period, parental notification of a minor. In Los Angeles I was talking to a woman who had an abortion at age 17, and she told me that she wished when she was 17 years old that someone would have told her what the postabortion trauma was going to be like. Looking back on it she wished that she had not chosen abortion, and she told me, "If I had time to reflect on it over the 24-hour waiting period, I might not have had that abortion." That's what I'm talking about -- changing attitudes, changing behavior...
...perhaps required. The induction started early, with one lecturer salivating over Freud and immersing his class in the symbolism of some gripping sexual depravities. Then, in casual wanderings around campus, deep Oedipal lusts drifted in and out of overheard conversation. Am I normal? Don't I partake of psychological trauma? By now the worries have settled in. Full neurosis must be around the corner...
McCool suffers from a severe case of cumulative trauma disorder, a syndrome that results from overusing the muscles and tendons of the fingers, hands, arms and shoulders. The condition brings pain, numbness, weakness and sometimes longterm disability. Such problems, more commonly known as repetitive stress injuries (RSI), now strike an estimated 185,000 U.S. office and factory workers a year. The cases account for more than half the country's occupational illnesses, compared with about 20% a decade...
...starving tissues trigger a distress signal that summons leukocytes and other members of the body's damage-control team, which begin to destroy distressed cells. Alas, if the signal stays on too long, cells are killed at a phenomenal rate and major organs begin to die even while hospital trauma teams are rushing to the rescue. Each year 25% of the shock victims who make it to the emergency room are revived only to die later. "It seems evolution never intended for someone to be resuscitated after shock," says John Harlan, head of hematology at the University of Washington...
...savings and loan collapse, the real estate depression, the health-care cost explosion and the runaway federal deficit. "This is a sick economy that won't respond to traditional remedies," said Norman Robertson, chief economist at Pittsburgh's Mellon Bank. "There's going to be a lot of trauma before it's over...