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...none of this did much to give the community back its sense of pride and Ristaino paints a moving and, on the whole, sad picture of their lives. Many never got over the loss of social status and the trauma of exile and eventually succumbed to alcoholism, drug addiction and debt. Wives and daughters of once secure professionals and army officers drifted into the twilight world of the city's nightlife as tea dancers and hostesses. The situation was so bad it even attracted the attention of the League of Nations. A report compiled by its officials estimated that...
...That's where you would expect psychotherapy to work, increasing the repertoire of calming messages that can be passed along to the amygdala. Certain desensitization techniques can also help the brain learn, through the hippocampus, to be less reactive. Of course, you have to do it right. Reliving a trauma too soon after it happened could also make the memory harder to erase...
WHAT IT ISN'T: Anxiety following a trauma that fades steadily over the course of a month...
STRESS-HORMONE BOOST Responding to signals from the hypothalamus and pituitary gland, the adrenal glands pump out high levels of the stress hormone cortisol. Too much cortisol shortcircuits the cells in the hippocampus, making it difficult to organize the memory of a trauma or stressful experience. Memories lose their context and become fragmented...
...certainly understand why the people responsible for the process [at Harvard] would want to come up with a way to avoid unnecessary trauma for the people who have been victimized,” Munafo says...