Word: trauma
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...Save the Children Has local teams in Aceh treating children for water-borne diseases and emotional trauma...
...Left?s CNN. Jon Stewart has made the President is an easy figure of fun. But the agit-docs aimed to nail Dubya for crimes graver than speaking English as a second language. They viewed Bush and his closest advisors as Pirates of the Constitution, exploiting the national trauma over 9/11 to pursue an impertinent and fatal Middle East adventure...
...zone, troops use a variety of means to try to stave off the aftershocks of trauma. Harding dealt with his anxieties by talking to other members of his company about them. Every time the events of that day ran though his mind, he said a prayer. He was reassured by visits from the battalion chaplain, who told the Marines to honor Halverson and their own good fortune by carrying...
...sent home. But the prime purpose is to prepare them to re-enter the fray, "healed" enough to undergo combat again. Rabb and other mental-health practitioners in Iraq say research from past wars shows that sending troubled troops home too early prevents them from dealing with their trauma and increases feelings of guilt stemming from a sense of abandoning the unit. Rabb won't quantify the number of combat-stress injuries incurred in Iraq. But he estimates that his team of counselors alone conducts up to 800 informal visits a month to troops in and around Baghdad, "just smoking...
Though few people here understand the psychological trauma of rejection, the long-term effects of Thin Envelope Syndrome are greater than one might imagine. We must make an effort to be sympathetic to Yalies, who have the unenviable task of starting out college as a disappointment to friends, to family and to themselves. There are probably even a few Harvard students who would find it difficult to thrive after such an inauspicious beginning to their college career. And while the stigma is lifelong, Thin Envelope Syndrome is just that: the beginning...