More than just a Bomb

BOOM! its a sound that can mean many things, for example:

BOOM!, your forgot to lower the fire of whatever you were cooking and the thing just blew up!

BOOM!, fireworks!! happy fourth of July!!!!

BOOM! at the speed of that word, its the same speed you run to class when you are late.

picture by WP Sports.

But this last April 16th, the City of Boston heard the boom in a way no one wants to hear. It is probably the most important news right now. However, the reason of this post is to talk about how can this situation has affected more than just a city or a state, it is a matter of the whole country.

 It is possible to feel stressed  and angry about something that is really far away!!

Los Angeles psychologist  Emanuel Maidenberg, PhD, says that in the wake of all that horror, it's understandable that emotions are still raw and  intense.

"People become vigilant, they look around, they become apprehensive," says Maidenberg, director of the cognitive behavioral therapy clinic at the UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine.

in the Article posted by Kathleen Doheny, she interview these two people to explore the effects of this event. They mention how this can trigger strong feelings of anger, and they also mention how to cope  with it.

However, my attention has been dragged to the news channels, that are constantly showing the time when the bomb exploded. I ask to myself, How can one that has been strongly affected by that event would recover or reduce the fellings of anger if they are seeing it all the time. Its like a  vicious cycle.

"The person has to acknowledge the loss," says the medical director of the Amputee Coalition and chief medical officer of the Adventist Rehabilitation Hospital of Maryland, Terrence Sheehan, talking about the process that people who lose limbs or are seriously injured have to go through. 

"They have to progress from ''this is horrible" to the difficult recognition that the limb, for example, is not coming back.

This can be tough, especially for those accustomed to high levels of activity.

Creating a vision of their new life is the next crucial step, Sheehan says. "They have to let go of their old self and embrace their new self," he says.

What Sheehan explains, makes me think about how "creating a vision" can be a problematic situation for the people witnessing also. It is like an inverse process. The people that lose a limb, have to create a vision of their new life but on the other side the people that are being exposed to the image of the event constantly crate a vision that dvelops feelings of anger.