What a luxury it was for witnesses of Damar Hamlin's collapse to be given a pause to process the tragedy they had just seen. If only the rest of us felt we could do the same. — via healthing_ca Iamlisamachado Healthing damarhamlin cardiacarrest grief
There was also no game postponement, no time given to process. It was impossible to continue, and yet we did, with calls to family, reliving the events of the day over and over, planning funeral arrangements, worrying about his kids, emptying his house. We continued on — because it felt like we should, because maybe others thought it was time, because it’s not considered normal or healthy to halt your life to give your heart the space it needs to process a traumatic event.
“What just happened?” she had asked. It had been a gruelling bunch of months with excruciating side effects, infections and disfiguring scars. Her mom thought she should get back to her job as a teacher as soon as possible — “It’s good to get back into the swing of things,” she told her — but my friend just wanted to “chill”: “I just need a moment to figure out the hell I have just been through.”
people who are trained — trained! — to deal with trauma benefit from taking a proverbial knee after experiencing something terrible., a geriatrics and palliative care physician in South Carolina, writes about the stress and trauma of doing CPR from a doctor’s perspective. Whether a patient dies or survives, she says, it’s important for physicians to pause in order to bring closure, decrease distress and make room to acknowledge feelings.
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