In New York City, shortly after the attack on September 11th, police
were on the river with diesel motors running all night, media helicopters
hovered 24/7 in the air photographing the World Trade Center site
day after day, military jets flew overhead producing so many of
the factors that were recorded in the original traumatization of
the attack, that the community, including the media, without realizing
it was constantly re-traumatizing that population. In being overzealous
and over-covering to the point of overkill, residents of that particular
area of the city were in an extended state of trauma beyond the
original event resulting in secondary traumatization
The US is in a hyper vigilant hyperactive anxiety state that is
traumatizing the whole country. The news media and the present way
of reporting trauma does not take into account any of the data that
indicates how to modify it and modify it so it can be reported without
traumatization. The visual impact of the world trade center attack
shown repeatedly even after a year has traumatized people who never
saw it and re-traumatized those people who lived through it because
the news media is in not taking into account what is known about
trauma and what not to do.
ACT has the capabilities to assist governments
at local and national levels that support less and less traumatization
of the general population while safeguarding the nation.
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