The horrors of bushfires don’t go away when the last fire is out. Effects can live on for months or years in the minds and hearts – and bodies — of many people , whether their involvement was actual or as a witness.
Although one pregnancy in four is lost to miscarriage in Australia, most non-mothers have no idea of the traumatic aftereffects on a woman who suffers this death of a wanted baby-to-be. So such women often don’t get the care and consideration they need.
Since the Afghanistan war, U.S. veterans’ suicides have formed a silent, tragic epidemic. More military personnel have died by suicide than died in the war.
In the nine years from 2008 and 2017, 60,000 men and women veterans killed themselves. In 2019 rates of suicides among returned service personnel are still increasing, according to a report from the U.S.
Because Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT tapping) can quickly neutralise shock, horror and fear without needing equipment, it is not only a practical way to help stabilise people quickly in the aftermath of disaster, but also its leading-edge, gentle, and accessible methods play a large part in avoiding Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder for many survivors.
Rape is not often discussed, is it? Either in public, or among friends? Yet it’s a common crime.
Being raped often affects a victim for the rest of life, in destructive and limiting ways. While rape statistics are high, because of victims’ fears and shame rape is seriously under-reported, leaving rapists free to violate again.
