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The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has a special web page devoted to PTSD; including info on helping children and adolescents with disasters. http://www.nimh.nih.gov/anxiety/ptsdmenu.cfm Very Best Wishes, Arthur
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I heard a cardinal on CNN suggest that families gather together and light a candle to symbolize the triumph of the light of goodness over the darkness of evil. Perhaps that might help both you and your daughter?
Oh, Donna, I’m so glad you passed that along. I have a beautiful herbal candle I bought in Vermont, and I’m going to light it right now. Thank you, Donna. Jeannie, my heart goes out to you. It took us forever to get our 3 kids to bed tonight. I hate that they had to see those terrible images. It reminds me too much of when I was a Cold-War kid in the early 1960s, and had to see news films of atomic bomb tests every time there was a tense situation in the world. I had nightmares about the A-bomb for years. Now our kids can have nightmares about planes crashing smack into tall buildings, and people falling out. Lord, lord. xxxxoooo Anne
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Hi Jeannie, I heard a cardinal on CNN suggest that families gather together and light a candle to symbolize the triumph of the light of goodness over the darkness of evil. Perhaps that might help both you and your daughter? Donna – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -She is 17. We’ve been home together all day glued to the coverage on TV. I don’t even know how to talk to her because I am as bewildered and scared as she is. She just went into her room, and turned off the light and is lying on her bed. I tried to hug her and she pushed me away. I don’t even know what to tell her. I feel like I am her age. I want someone to reassure me. But there is no way to reassure. Who knows what is to come. I don’t know how to be there for her. I feel like I am failing her in this important moment in her life. Jeannie I want to live before I die.
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She is 17. We’ve been home together all day glued to the coverage on TV. I don’t even know how to talk to her because I am as bewildered and scared as she is. She just went into her room, and turned off the light and is lying on her bed. I tried to hug her and she pushed me away. I don’t even know what to tell her. I feel like I am her age. I want someone to reassure me. But there is no way to reassure. Who knows what is to come. I don’t know how to be there for her. I feel like I am failing her in this important moment in her life. Jeannie I want to live before I die.
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