Category: Safety and Security
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Let’s Talk About Resilience
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Why do some children seem to have this buoyancy, this natural knack for coping with the trauma in their lives more successfully than other children? Why are some children who experience early rejection able to grow into adulthood without developing patterns of negative beliefs about themselves and the safety and trust of their world and the people…
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A Very Scary Protest
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It’s stunning to me how quickly a recent scary situation can bring up long-ago childhood fearful memories.
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Trying to Feel Safe but Old Fears Keep Assaulting Me
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I like to think of myself as pretty fearless and gutsy but not so much with all the news of smash-and-grabs, assaults and shootings. My PTSD-like visceral response comes from old fears when I was a Child Protective Social Worker in San Francisco many years ago.
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I Didn’t Know the Gun Was Loaded . . .
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I used to play with Daddy’s gun when I was a child. Now I cringe whenever i hear about a child shooting or killing another child or their parent or themselves. Freaks me out to realizeI could have been that child. Another unintended shooting – on the set of ‘Rust’ when the cinematographer and director…
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Describing the Capitol Siege Like a Performance Piece
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What Sen. Ron Johnson described about the Jan. 6 siege on the Capitol and what i saw on TV as it was happening were very different realities. I felt I was being gaslighted and it reminded me of all the times in my childhood I was told “you’re imagining it,”
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Traumatizing Experiences Can Bring On PTSD
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When the Capitol was invaded on January 6, many members of Congress and staff were traumatized by needing to evacuate and hide for hours.They will likely experience PTSD — especially if they thought they were going to die.