Word: traumas
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...also effective, as is Lemelson’s attention to character development. As one spectator commented, the film does not attempt to “glamorize or create saints” out of the victims. Rather, they are portrayed honestly as complicated people coming to terms with the trauma of their past. In fact, all of the survivors interviewed in the film are struggling with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the social stigmatization that still haunts Communist-affiliated citizens in Indonesia.Lemelson, a professor at the Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA, began conducting research in Indonesia...
...shooting of Abed Rabu family members by an Israeli soldier, true or not, is biased, disturbing and harmful. The constant shelling of the towns and settlements in southern Israel seems forgotten. Wouldn't it have been fairer to juxtapose your story with one on the casualties and trauma suffered by Israeli civilians during the years of shelling? Avigdor Reiss, JERUSALEM, ISRAEL...
...sinking for the six months previous. But I wonder what it will take for us to see those $545 Sigerson Morrison studded toe-ring sandals as reasonable? Bargain-hunting can be addictive regardless of the state of the Dow, and haggling is a low-risk, high-value contact sport. Trauma digs deep into habits, like my 85-year-old mother still calling her canned-goods cabinet "the bomb shelter." The children of the First Depression were saving string and preaching sacrifice long after the skies cleared. They came to be called the "greatest generation." As we learn to be decent...
...Texas, a neighbor told Holly's mother to turn on the radio. When the news report came out, she screamed and collapsed. In Greenwich Village, Buddy Holly's pregnant wife heard the news on television and suffered a miscarriage the following day, reportedly due to "psychological trauma." In the months following the crash, authorities would adopt a policy against releasing victims' names until after the families had been notified...
...deep tension was built in from the start of the stimulus debate, when Obama stressed both the need for speed and the need for change. There is trauma surgery, and there is transplant surgery; one usually takes a lot longer than the other, and you'd be insane to try to do both together. So I wondered why he seemed to set himself up to fail, insisting that lawmakers do something very big, very hard, very fast, and in a whole...