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4. Grief and Loss, TraumaLoginArticlesThe Day The Music Stopped (November 1998)
A high school junior, a daughter of friends, was gravely injured in a car/pedestrian accident. The police estimated the car was going 50-60 miles per hour. Her life hung by a thread and the best medical help science could offer. A physician, to quote the parents, "an amazing guy," encouraged them to hope and be patient when others counseled them not to take heroic efforts to save her life. To have her alive is a blessing, a miracle. Other teens and young adults who hav ... Can A Tragedy Be Good For Us? (May 1997)
Post-traumatic stress disorder is the long lasting negative effects of trauma on a person's well-being. But have you ever heard of "post-traumatic growth?" Psychologists Richard Tedeschi and Lawrence Calhoun at the University When The Unthinkable Happens. Coping With Sudden Death (June 1995)
Death is death. The person we know is irrevocably gone. All death is difficult, yet a sudden, unanticipated death - accidental, homicide, suicide - offers additional complications to the grief and mourning process. Family and friends o Reader Adds Insight - Grieving Process (July 1995)
Dear Dr. Farmer, I feel compelled today to write you regarding the column you wrote on grieving and mourning a sudden death. I am wholeheartedly in agreement with the article's contents and wish to make some additional comments. Visit Of Holocaust Museum Sobering (September 1995)
In a city filled with monuments and museums giving tribute to lofty human nobility and accomplishment, there is a place depicting the depths of human depravity and cruelty. It is the National Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. Go there. It wil Death On The Job (January 1995)
A man lost his life in a tragic mining accident and I was asked to address his co-workers before they returned to work at the job site. This is what I told them. I don't know why certain things happen. Why it was Tracy and not you, or w The Lakota View Of Dying (September 1995)
I was privileged to hear Sidney Keith, a Lakota spiritual leader, talk about how the Lakota (Sioux Indians) view death. He has been a teacher for ten years at the Oglala Community College extension program in Rapid City. "We live The Nursing Home: A Family Affair (November 1995)
"I have always resisted the idea of nursing home care for my elderly mother. Now we are faced with an impossible situation where we can no longer care for her. As a family, we feel a lot of guilt about placing her in a nursing home. What do The Loss Of A Husband To Alzheimer's Disease (April 1999)
A friend, Emily McLaws, experienced her husband Monte's Alzheimer Disease from its earliest signs in 1987 to his death in 1996. Emily has sent me a manuscript of a book she's written about what she has been through. In the book she includes poetry to describe her feelings. With her permission, I selected a few of her poems that describe how Alzheimer's altered their relationship as husband and wife. |
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