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http://is.gd/5QM9Cu What is a Traumatic Stress Reaction? People
who experience or witness horrible events such as school
shootings, combat, rape, torture, natural disasters, accidents
or other things in which their physical safety and life -- or
the safety and life of others -- was in danger have experienced
a traumatic stress. People who are repeatedly exposed to life or
death situations, such as EMT and rescue squad workers, police
officers, fire fighters and medical personnel on burn wards or
trauma units where stress levels and mortality rates are high
also witness trauma. Anyone who has experienced these things has
experienced a shock and, even if all ultimately escape danger,
the people who lived through the event may feel like life “just
isn’t the same anymore.” People may experience a variety of
reactions, many of which are understandable in the context of
experiencing or witnessing traumatic events such as the
hurricanes. Experiencing physical