Catastrophe & Trauma:
EXAMPLE Of GROUP TRAUMA AND PHOBIAS
Catastrophe & Trauma Notes:
EXAMPLE Of GROUP TRAUMA AND PHOBIA (War Prisoners)
Info on Concentration camp (mental health stats) for the Jews after they were freed from the camps (Krystal, 1968).
Phobic symptoms were marked: 31 percent were troubled with fears that something
terrible would happen to their mates or their children whenever they were out of sight.
Many of them were phobic about certain people whose appearance or
behavior reminded them of their jailors; for example, the sight of a uniformed
policeman or the inquisitive behavior of a doctor might be enough to set off panic.
Seven percent had such severe panic attacks that the individual
became confused and disoriented, entering a dreamlike state in which he
believed himself to be back in the concentration camp.
The survivors relived the trauma in dreams for twenty years; 71 percent of
these patients had anxiety dreams and nightmares, with 41 percent having
severe ones. These nightmares were usually reruns of their persecution. Particularly
terrifying were dreams in which only one detail was changed from
the reality; for example, dreaming that their children who had not yet been
born at the time of the camps, had been imprisoned with them in the camps.
Eighty percent of the patients suffered survivor guilt, depression, and crying
spells. Survival guilt was especially strong when the patient's children
had been killed; those who were the most severely depressed had lost an only
child or had lost all of their children, with no children being born since.
Ninety-two percent expressed self-reproach for failing to save their relatives,
and 14 percent wished they had been killed instead of their relatives (Krystal,
1968).
EXAMPLE Of GROUP TRAUMA AND PHOBIA (War Prisoners)
Info on Concentration camp (mental health stats) for the Jews after they were freed from the camps (Krystal, 1968).
Phobic symptoms were marked: 31 percent were troubled with fears that something
terrible would happen to their mates or their children whenever they were out of sight.
Many of them were phobic about certain people whose appearance or
behavior reminded them of their jailors; for example, the sight of a uniformed
policeman or the inquisitive behavior of a doctor might be enough to set off panic.
Seven percent had such severe panic attacks that the individual
became confused and disoriented, entering a dreamlike state in which he
believed himself to be back in the concentration camp.
The survivors relived the trauma in dreams for twenty years; 71 percent of
these patients had anxiety dreams and nightmares, with 41 percent having
severe ones. These nightmares were usually reruns of their persecution. Particularly
terrifying were dreams in which only one detail was changed from
the reality; for example, dreaming that their children who had not yet been
born at the time of the camps, had been imprisoned with them in the camps.
Eighty percent of the patients suffered survivor guilt, depression, and crying
spells. Survival guilt was especially strong when the patient's children
had been killed; those who were the most severely depressed had lost an only
child or had lost all of their children, with no children being born since.
Ninety-two percent expressed self-reproach for failing to save their relatives,
and 14 percent wished they had been killed instead of their relatives (Krystal,
1968).
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