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Weisskopf is a hero. I'm a retired Veterans Administration clinical social worker who treated war heroes for 40 years. I know what they are made of. Besides the valor he demonstrated by saving lives, he is putting his life back together after a horrific trauma. Like the great war correspondent Ernie Pyle, Weisskopf chose the heart of the battle zone to profile the armed forces. Anyone who has read Weisskopf's story should be able to appreciate the heroism of our armed forces and veterans...
...potential pedophile in this climate is going to raise his hand and feel comfortable that he's going to be helped rather than injured," says Dr. Fred Berlin, a Johns Hopkins University professor who founded the National Institute for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Trauma, in Baltimore...
...same way, we face a choice around the rituals of burial and healing. Is it proper to stick to one?s normal scripted rituals, or does this particular trauma call for something extra, something improvised...
...process of how people heal from severe trauma has been well studied. Acting visibly normal, after a short disruption, is actually the most common reaction to severe trauma. About half those directly affected will quickly return to holding conversations, eating meals, getting out of bed, and resuming work. Even though they?re the majority, those who are capable of this have their own sort of guilt, confused by their own resilience. Too often we outsiders presume these people are in denial of their grief, or that they?re ?acting healed? too soon. For those who respond this way, normalcy...
...Another quarter of those exposed to severe trauma will gradually recover to normal functioning over the next 18 months. The rest are split between chronic disruption - never able to act normal again - and those who have a delayed reaction; they can act normal for a while, but gradually lose it. Since we never know which individuals will fall into which pattern, we now recognize that it can actually be unhelpful to intervene too soon, pushing one style of healing on them...