Common Mental Health Effects Victims of Natural Disasters like Hurricane Harvey Experience by Taylor Bennett | Sep 1, 2017 | Mental Health Awareness, Mental Health Topics, Trauma Hurricane Harvey surprised us all with more aggression and rain than most meteorologists predicted or have ever seen before. The tropical storm has attacked the Houston, Texas area, flooding it with more than 50 inches of rain and setting a record for the continental U.S. in the process. It is…
Survivor’s Guilt: Coping, Facts, and Fictions by Taylor Bennett | Aug 1, 2017 | Feelings & Emotions, Mental Health Topics, Trauma Meredith and six of her fellow doctors board a plane—one of many in their lifetimes—in a hurry, each with their own distractions and busy minds. Suddenly the plane starts shaking uncontrollably and their attentions are reverted; within minutes, the plane has fallen out of the sky and they’re scattered among…
Dealing with Trauma: Overview, Facts, and Fictions by Taylor Bennett | Aug 1, 2017 | Mental Health Topics, Trauma The world we live in is full of pain and suffering: the children who grow up with uninvolved or inexistent parents; the men and women who leave their families to fight for their country and never return; the women who are abused by boyfriends and rapists; the homeless that rest…
How to Handle Criticism as a Survivor of Trauma by Tina Hilliard | Dec 30, 2015 | Mental Health Topics, Trauma Whether constructive or otherwise received from a spouse, boss, family member or friend, criticism for some of us can provoke defensiveness, justifying, rationalizing, minimizing, and sometimes self-defeating hostility. I’ve personally seen these responses to criticism displayed more frequently in those who reported histories of trauma of some sort. Whether the…
Boston Psychiatrist Helps Us Cope with Boston Marathon by Anthony Centore, PhD | Apr 24, 2013 | Coping Skills, Mental Health Topics, Trauma The dreadful bombings on the finish line of the Boston Marathon, April 15, 2013, in which three persons died and at least 183 were injured calls to mind another senseless tragedy. On December 14, 1992, Wayne Lo, a student at Simon’s Rock College in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, went on a…