From the Critical Incident Stress Debriefing Pamplet (CISD)

[locus_ofcontro]

Physical Effects: Headaches, Restless Sleep, Inability to fall asleep, muscle tension, increased heart rate, nausea, nightmares
Emotional Effects: Anxiety, Fear, Anger or Rage, Guilt, Increased Irritability, Grief, Loss of Trust in people, Loss of Sense of Personal Control, Depression, Easily Startled, Desire to withdraw from People and/or Activities
Effects on Thinking Include: Concentration Problems (i.e. difficult reading a newspaper), Poor Attention Span (difficulty staying with one activity), Flashbacks (re-experiencing the incident), Second-guessing (what if I had done... If Only...)

Hrms...sounds familiar.... Please note, dealing with me these days is a bit like dealing with quicksand. I'm not sure what side of stable I'm gonna be on from moment to moment. Ghods damn, empathic environments and coincidence....

I don't want to start any blasphemous rumour but I think that God has a sick sense of humour and when I die, I expect to find him laughing...

Comments

[utsi.livejournal.com]

i'm almost afraid to ask what and where you got this pamphlet. i know some of this stuff from my own dr-types... hmmm... thinking we should talk sometime. stuff i would share that i don;t like to write down.

[locus-ofcontrol.livejournal.com]

I got it from work. There's been an incident in our environment that's likely to have ripple effects for the next 3 or 4 years... It doesn't affect me directly, but it makes does have an effect on the whole environment...

My private email is rszilvagyi@hotmail.com if you wanna fire me something... No worries for me though, I'm coping ok, some days are simply more difficult than others and today was a challenging one. I have good resources and supports in place... :)