Natural disasters, terrorist attacks and national incidences all leave us glued to the television reliving in real-time these horrors.
We cannot look away, but we are programmed to watch. We end up experiencing secondary trauma, which is defined as indirect exposure to trauma through a firsthand account or narrative of a traumatic event.
Stress impacts all our lives in various ways. The impact can be wide-ranging from modest impact to debilitating. The prevalent symptoms of secondary traumatic stress, as noted by traumaawareschools.org, are: Feeling numb, dissociated or detached, hopeless, overwhelmed or other emotional symptoms.
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