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One tragedy supplants another, as people cope with effects of trauma [CentralMaine.com]

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As news hit of the terrorist attacks in Paris, social media exploded almost more than the city itself with heartfelt messages, images of solidarity and prayers for all of those involved. The Eiffel Tower became a peace sign. Profile pictures turned blue, white and red in honor of the French flag.

Facebook enabled its Safety Check feature for those in the city to let friends and family know they were secure. I have to admit that for a time on Saturday, even my own Facebook profile bore the colors of France. Americans showed, at least in their social media existence, that they cared. Paris would be remembered.

And then I saw a posting about Beirut, where only a day earlier more than 40 people lost their lives in a double suicide bomb attack. Their trauma, as The New York Times pointed out, “feels forgotten.”

What other traumas, I wonder, do we continue to overlook? Who else are we forgetting?

Since September 2012, members of the Waterville High School staff have been discussing adverse childhood experiences and their effects on teens. The term comes from 1998 study conducted by researchers from Kaiser Permanente and the Centers for Disease Control. The study included more than 17,000 predominately middle-class participants who answered questions about various types of trauma they experienced between birth and age 18. The types included physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, substance abuse, household mental illness, parental separation, parental incarceration and instances of domestic violence. The researchers then looked at the participants’ health.

 

[For more of this story, written by Sherry Pineau Brown, go to http://www.centralmaine.com/20...h-effects-of-trauma/]

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