veronicatnorris
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found a case where a us veterans affairs nurse wrote a letter to a newspaper about george bush and got arrested for subversion although interesting thats not what struck me, it was something else she mentioned, with the recent conflict in iraq the va saw an unprecedented surge of new cases of breakdowns and ptsd from ww2 veterans triggered by the imagery of the gulf on tv, it certainly got at me being on 24 hours a day for a year afghan -iraq etc,after 60+ years people were still being triggered off, so what role does mass media have in retraumatising people? apart from getting rid of the tv radio and trying to avoid contact with the rest of the world what can be done about it, could be relevant again as looks like us is in for a second round with iran so more tv coverage. get wound up easily enough so try to avoid too much news but what about when it is everywhere?
