Storms can be fatal. Therefore, to protect time emergency management functions, such as sending warning ahead of time, the lives of our children, families and communities. We know that inside to stay away during the storm and our television and computer, because we know it can happen in case of bad weather, bad things. Let us know in advance to prepare for keeping a watchful eye on the basis of monitoring the storm and resources to get safely through them as a flashlightBatteries, bottled water, first aid kits and other supplies essential for survival. What we do not know, but in general, is how to deal with the devastating emotions that come after a terrible storm hits. Emotions such as stress, anger, anxiety, depression, anxiety and panic are often in our busy world, but can build up to dangerous after a critical event that can often lead to disastrous results.
Natural disasters can destroy entire communities in minutes, during recoveryReconstruction process of a major critical incident may be weeks or months to sort. The more you know how to survive after the storm, the sooner you will be able to take positive steps to bring your personal and professional life back on track. Since natural disasters such as hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, fires and floods are among the largest and most destructive forces that affect people living in the U.S., what you can do now to address the psychological impact ofbefore or after a major storm is landing?
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To concentrate the most important thing is this: "Do not make a bad situation even worse"
Keep this thought in mind as you go through the stabilization process itself, and are important to you who have been affected by the startup type storm. During the storm, the goal is to make sure, while the survivors of any kind vomiting, burning heat, the earth trembles under your feet or your house to hurricanes and rain. Afterthe disaster is over and the storm is over, the goal of quickly rebuild the normal routine of life that you had in your personal and professional life before the storm hit. If you get too focused on the reconstruction, you can spend your energies in a positive way, instead of mixing in a mental fog of confusion, panic or regret.
Deal directly with your emotions reduces tension and stress on you to help you more energy, you may have to deal with a difficult situation.However, if you stuff your fears and frustrations in a major disaster, your emotions can quickly blow up without warning. Exploding in rage on your children, your marriage partner or a volunteer at a water station will only make a difficult situation worse. It's not their fault, and it's not yours. Natural disasters are a terrible situation full of loss and difficulty for everyone. By taking action now you can move beyond feeling overwhelmed by intense stress, anger or confusion. As you follow the insight from this recovery guide, you will be taking positive steps to rebuild with the focused energy of an even stronger life for you and your family after the storm.
To best survive the storm, you need a strong combination of three key elements
- healthy coping skills
- healthy supports and a
- healthy perspective
of how to rebuild after a natural disaster. While things will never be the same as they were before the storm; the following guidelines will give you the key elements needed to overcome stress and even overwhelming to find a greater resistance on the other side.
- What are the signs of dangerous "storm stress syndrome"?
Stress affects us all before the storm, but it is dangerous to our health when it goes on for a longer period. Storm Stress may affect adults, children, elderly and even animals, so it's important to be vigilant to see the warning signs of the state mental"Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder" (commonly known as PTSD), in yourself, your family and colleagues. In natural disasters like hurricanes or tornadoes, I am referring to the rapid development of these symptoms as "Storm Stress Syndrome." These symptoms are not a dramatic change in emotions, behavior, thought patterns or physical symptoms in the coming days, weeks or even months. Since natural disasters are a terribly stressful time for everyone, both during and after the storm andare often stressful for some time to come, there are a number of factors to consider for yourself and those you care about housing.
Storm-warning signs of stress
These signs are indicators that the intense stress of the Critical Incident begins to overwhelm the individual. Occur along the stress symptoms, the greater the severity of the traumatic event for the individual. This does not imply craziness or personal weakness, but simply means that theThe stress of the storm was too strong to manage the person and his body is the abnormal situation, survived a severe trauma to respond.
It 'totally normal to feel overwhelmed by a natural disaster like a hurricane, but there are warning signs to point to themselves or others, the psychological trauma observed. Adults or children who show symptoms of stress one of the following need extra help for the events of this crisis. E 'strongly advised to seek appropriate medical or psychological help if you have a lot of physical, emotional, cognitive or behavioral abnormalities listed below in you to see your employee or someone in your family or home, especially if these symptoms present before the storm.
Physical symptoms:
Chills, thirst, fatigue, nausea, fainting, vomiting, dizziness, weakness, chest pain, headaches, high blood pressure, palpitations, muscle tremors, difficultyBreathing, shock symptoms, and so on.
Emotional symptoms:
Fear, guilt, pain, panic, denial, anxiety, irritability, depression, anxiety, emotional shock and feeling overwhelmed, loss of emotional control, and so on.
Cognitive symptoms:
Confusion, nightmares, insecurity, hyper-vigilance, suspiciousness, intrusive images, poor problem solving, poor abstract thinking, poor attention problems / memory and concentration, disorientation of time, place, or people who have difficultyThe identification of objects or persons, lowered or increased attention, and so on.
Behavioral symptoms:
Withdrawal, antisocial behavior, insomnia, increased speed, erratic movements, changes in social activity, changes in the patterns of language, loss or increased appetite, increased alcohol consumption, and so on.
If you have any questions about these symptoms in your life, or someone you are interested, you should seek care from a doctor or a psychologist certified.Better to be active with the distressing emotions directly to yourself and your loved ones immediately to address this crisis, much because to strengthen and intensify those emotions that tend not treated. Remember that there are many professionals who can help you to relax in a moment of crisis. It is not necessary to go through this alone.
Act now to avoid the stress after the storm, you or the people continue to overwhelm you. Call a trustedFriend get to talk through them, the clergy, or call your family doctor or consultant. If you do not know someone to call on these emotional issues can get assistance by calling the telephone line, offered at no cost to you. These numbers are often the local media, hospitals, the American Red Cross, the Salvation Army or FEMA wrote. If you or someone you're feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, guilt or pain, it is important to make the callGet help now, as you begin to print before, feel "good" to return.
- How can I help my family back to "normal" after a major disaster?
Hurricanes, tornadoes, fires, floods and earthquakes are often the most devastating events that a person can experience in his life. These types of storms are also more expensive to recover from financial disaster, because the consequences of unemployment insurance or not enough to replace what the stormdestroyed. It can take months, maybe even feel up to a year for all, that all the "normal" again. The real psychological effects of the storm is very different from those of factors such as age, their previous experience with storm recovery, and more importantly, how much stress they had before the storm in his life. More stress in their lives, someone had attacked before the storm, the longer it will take to recover, and with the tension of daily lifewith rising gasoline prices have dramatically increased the stress on all affected by these storms.
Here are some immediate ways to bring order and peace in your life after the chaos and confusion that follows a natural disaster, such as hurricanes.
1) Plug in the relationship -
You can not get to a crisis alone. Since we were all affected differently, it is extremely important for the stress and pressure to speak with the expertPeople are closer. Achievement you have friends and family as soon as possible, and invite people not to be heard in a while '. Check carefully to see if they agree, are just a few minutes, but will strengthen and help both. Just about what any of you know by the disaster and how to talk through the storm. Connection can be obtained through the huge crisis, this is to achieve a particularly good time to visit friends or relatives who can move away fromcloser relations. Act now to achieve, people waiting around with words of encouragement and support, but not for someone else until you call his phone does not work! Go find a new relationship and help each other rebuild.
2) Create your routines-
This is one of the most important factors for the hectic life back on track, because we take all the strength and safety of a structured day. Bed, dinner time, getting up to goSchool or work, or church or in the gym. To get back his strength quickly identify what the normal routine before the storm and then return to them were as fast as possible. Even if you are staying in a hotel room, or family members for a while ', with the rituals, it is usually followed, make up your daily lifestyle walking stick. In this way, to feel comfortable to be stable and predictable routines, regardless of the load of the many changes since someThem.
3) to reach the faith-
In times of crisis, everyone believes in the power of prayer and the importance of their faith. There is an enormous power to know what they believe and live according to those beliefs and values. To put it back into the faith after the storm, you may fear the things you know I left too big for you, because you can trust God to deal with them. Please take a few minutes or maybe even an hour a day for a peaceful mediation andReflection on what is most important when you grow up, make it strong, despite the storm. This is particularly important if you or your children feel lost, alone or afraid. God takes care and time to pray and leave the burden to help through it the rest of the day. Many churches and houses of faith and have disaster recovery teams, mentoring and financial assistance available to its members cope with the crisis. To help others in need is one of themajor ways people avoid a model of faith, what they believe, the tendency to be "too good" to ask for help when you need it. In combination with a dedicated personal faith with the combination of a local house of worship will be a tremendous sense of community through this storm and to those who get to come.
4) Tell your story-
Young and old feel is out of the other survivors, which is probably the worst natural disaster to benefit from ever beingExperience. There is enormous power in his narrative, the healing is for power and useful to others who get the power to hear and understand how creative people through the crisis. How do you talk about what has happened, it is easier to talk about other family members or colleagues about their feelings of loss and. Things will never be the same as before, but life will go on, and we are able to rebuild and overcome together better. Tell your story nowTheir greater strength and connect with neighbors and friends who share their story with you.
- How does a critical incident like this has on children?
Depends on the age of the child. The younger the child, the more they see their parents for emotional security and strength. When a mother or father "shocked" or "deaf" and not capable of feelings and responsibilities for the management, the child feels that the pressure and very confused and much morehe said. Remember, it is normal to be overwhelmed by a major disaster. That's why it's so important to keep it to yourself to take your children and his concern for the long-term recovery and rebuilding after the storm.
Note that you can travel on commercial aircraft at the guidance for parents with small children. "There should be a cabin de-pressurization unexpected, oxygen masks fall from the ceiling, place the mask over his mouth and nose.and so need the mask over his mouth and nose of the people around you for help. "Be sensitive to your emotional needs, and then you will be in a stronger position to help those around you. If you feel overwhelmed to give your children or others who depend on the support, please help. It is good to ask, tired , worn out and be overly emphasized. This is normal after a natural disaster. But not right to ignore the needs of care depends on youchildren, elderly people or pets. Sometimes, a parent must make changes to changes in the workplace or their programs for a while 'from the transfer of certain tasks to save time and energy to prevent their children feel more pressure from the difficult experiences that lead to the survival of a be major disaster. If you believe that your supervisor "tank" is empty, someone else will help you for a while 'till you get your strength back. This is best for you and for those who are important to you.
WhenYou can concentrate and focus on understanding the needs of children, you see what they say or do the design, to determine if you still feel too stressed by the storm. School-age children about to paint, or make some positive action (like a lemonade stand to raise money for the children as they now raise the storm victims, because their homes were destroyed), so if you help do something with you about through positive actions can and kind to herEmotions immediately. High school age, children can groped "cool" about everything, but often act changes more anxiety, loss and confusion than any other group. They are older and have a little 'more experience' reality 'at times heavily on their ability to talk about what is happening around them. If you are willing to persuade their brothers, take other family members, clergy or counselor often not long before it can grow strong enough to deal with their feelingsto feel like themselves again and again.
The greatest danger signs to be alert and aware, noting significant changes in behavior. If a child has always been happy to get lucky before the storm and now sits all day on video, look at the disasters of the world on news channels or weather, then you might want to find the reason why they made a dramatic change in personality. Look for other significant changes in sleep patterns school, school performance, peer relationships, and soof. If you see big changes that concern, it's time, professional care for the child to their pediatrician or a child with conduct disorder specialist
- What are some ways to help our children to speak to storm stress?
You can get the children to help in many ways, they are dealing with this stressful time of rebuilding after the storm. Speak, write, draw, make a song even the experience of the disaster is the time to pass more quickly, and can alsoBrighten up someone else's burden of emotional pain and difficulties to help you through the process. Some families also play table games such as the "worst case scenario '(based on actual survival information from a book with the same name). Many of the problems in the game is not likely to happen to discuss the majority of the population of the planet ( like how to survive a shark attack), but can still speak of a crisis in the life of helping children learn the basics of the transitionPanic strengths to build their own survival through the troubleshooting.
- What can people expect in the coming weeks?
"Hurry up and wait" is the motto that many people are thinking in the coming days. This is because the activities of daily living such as filling a tank of gas under a hot shower or driving through a busy intersection with traffic lights work, have drastically interrupted. Life is usually in balance for weeks or sometimes months after a seriousDisaster, and while no one loves him, we all have to get through it.
It may be necessary for many long lines of commodities or services in order to survive or take care of our loved ones, so for the reason that it can be difficult at times. Large storms can kill hundreds of people, destroyed posters, lights from tearing down their sticks, trees chipped, cloth curtains or room window, pull electric transmission lines, telephone cable Internet, snap off road signs, severedamaged thousands of homes and causing millions, sometimes billions of dollars of damage when they hit, (as well as Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast a few years ago). How many more people and communities who are interested, the time it takes a couple of things are evaluated also for the repair and significantly longer to be replaced. We recommend getting mentally prepared for the fact that the damage inflicted by a violent storm, it can take weeks to clean up and maybe even months for preparationYear built.
I know this will be difficult for everyone involved, but we can get through it with much less stress if we work together. Here is a formula to retrieve the victims of this type of crisis quickly. Expressed by the word "PAT" is an abbreviation for
Patience
Things will take a lot longer than normal. Focus on reality, disorganized, because things are confused or after the storm, rather than angry at everything that does not go their way. Thelet your anger build up more, the more likely it is to download the man you love. This is irresponsible and wrong, then let's do it! Dealing directly with the pressure of the recovery time by building a deeper understanding of the situation and what actually is instead angry and helpless, what can you do something now, at this time of disaster recovery. Irritable and moody than ever to not make things better for everyone, but it canworsen the situation for all concerned. Why you should be more stress to an already overstressed?
Attitude
In a crisis situation that can not afford even a drop of precious resources like water or gasoline and should be equally careful about wasting emotional energy to worry about things that you can not change. It 'time to go with the flow of difficult situations, rather than trying to fight it. You can not control this situation is difficulthappens, and if you try something over-control the size of a natural disaster, will only lead to a higher level of anxiety and stress for you. Better to stay focused on positive things like counting your blessings instead of counting your problems. Lack anxiety, stress, anxiety and chronic sleep can make a bad situation like this and in an abusive or out of control, you are in a few days. Protect your attitude and you will clearly protect your ability to deal with the muchThe challenges that lie ahead.
Trust
This is difficult because people are upset and angry in the days and weeks tend to a critical event. It 'is important to understand that the construction and recovery crews responsibility for taking measures to ensure the activities of daily life, we tend to hold self-evident (such as services of electricity, water, gas, telephone and cable) to work repair, have 24 / 7 shifts that reached an important goal to rebuild the basic services that have been disturbed bythe disaster.
These dependent electric company, telephone company, tree services, mobile operators, employees, cable TV, Internet providers, insurance adjusters, FEMA workers, the Department of Transport and traffic lights to replace workers, firefighters, police officers , doctors, nurses, school board officials, workers in food, gas station, yard debris collector and so on. Trust that everyone does their best to get thingsback on track. Emergency repair crews often work double time to our homes, schools and businesses back the number of tracks on it. Indeed it is better to stop and thank them with your children if you have a chance. A friendly word "thank you" goes a long way from the stress and frustration that these professionals feel at home in the reconstruction and maintenance of essential services to reduce in our community.
- Why do some people seem bitter or hateful to a crisis like this, rather than be gratefulLife?
A major disaster "dumping" that is inside of a man, you see the best and worst behavior happens in the coming days. A critical incident or natural disaster that overwhelms a community as a whole creates an equal reaction and emotional people, so that for some unusual reactions in yourself and the people around you are prepared. Sometimes the people who were more evil act before the storm wonderful and friendly beyond the recovery from this type oftraumatic event. And 'how they found a hidden force in a crisis and reach out to others in new ways. Others simply go numb and seem to act like robots. Some people strong and others are unusually quiet. There are many reasons for the wide range of emotional response, be a common factor, as many difficult and traumatic experiences that have already suffered in their lives. We hope that some people have already ordered these deep wounds and strongEmotions before the storm hits a murderess. If so, can a deeper understanding of the need for compassion for others in crisis. They understand the storms of life and respond with kindness, sometimes even seem to come automatically to them to get in touch with positive emotions rather than critical.
Other people may be completely cut, hateful, and say everything they do and, if not storm the front in this way. You can also try to chase youwith a broom, but to help them clean up a broken limb to try in your garden! Do not panic, there are probably a fault, but it is probably a behavior that some call a "hard heart". This is true of the past year has accumulated unresolved hurts and never addressed or resolved. Try not to take it personally when criticism comes your way. Remember the rule that "hurt people hurt people" and take their negative comments with a "grain of salt", while stillYou try to maintain the integrity of caring for others, it is able to receive the offer of a hand to overcome this difficult time to maintain.
- What is survivor guilt and how it works adverse effects on humans?
Thousands of people have lost power, had their homes damaged or lost primary care often feel that by being, instead of being thankful for their blessings blessed discomfort. Do not forget to manage your affairs at home and go to work in a responsible manner and pacethrough the process. Taking too much / too fast, you can restrict the exhaust and your ability to live your priorities in your immediate family. To help others at the expense of protecting and supporting the family seems to own immediately after a disaster, but it is wrong because it is the main priority of the next cure for her first, (there are exceptions to this rule of emergency at the time) moved . The best thing is to recover and rebuild in the race pace. Hurricane or flood seasons to comethe end, but if more than do-things that you may end up hurting yourself and make your future, much worse. If the house is in order and you can get to work, the happiest person in your area, and unless you have suffered minor damage caused by bad weather, allowing the inconvenience of daily life, how to do without hot water or cable television for a while ', you get below.
- What people should consider the first return home after having evacuated before the storm?
You mustprepare mentally for the loss, remembering that things in this life will be damaged by wind, water, fire and falling trees can. Our lives and the lives of those we love are far more valuable than anything else in our homes. Regardless of the destruction looks like now, remember that it can finally be resolved with time. Repeat phrases like: "It 'just things like that", or "things you have, the more things you have," or even "our family is safe and that is allIssues, since the rest is just a house that can be replaced "change your mind on the things that allows you to save your most powerful weapon, their internal unity, belief and choices is the emotional control," Grid ". This all the other emotions going through change. and you will be able to make positive changes in your daily life.
- What can give a final thought, to get through this recovery process?
Stress can lead to a greater degree of successif you allow it, this is the focus you need to grow through a difficult situation like this. It will make it through the crisis and survive if you take steps to link your support, use positive coping strategies and to develop the mentality of trying the strength of the storm. Most of this process is to achieve arms control and with others who have been affected by this storm as you were. Other media companies has a significantly higher levelForce, as if you've ever tried, simply through the crisis. Finding the strength of storms connection with other weapons is that the trees huge California redwood to withstand tremendous pressure.
Redwood trees are huge ...
are many more than 300 feet high, and even the roots that are only 4-5 meters deep. Why not fall in a gentle breeze? Simple. The mighty redwoods never grow alone. Their roots connect them together and hold ten times the stress and pressurebecause they are not alone in the storm. They need each other to be strong so we did. A serious crisis gives us a chance to do too much in common, as are the redwoods. This is our time to build healthy coping strategies in order to focus our daily lives and through strong people, heart and resources to businesses that need to be surrounded by living what they believe stand. And it's time for you to stand beside them, as we all come together to make our communities rebuild after the storm.
NotNo matter what the size of the crisis event, you can find the strength after the storm, because stress is beyond the beginning of the quest for greater success. Following in the footsteps of action in this resource guide you can start to build strength back into your personal and professional life, despite the storms. As you can tell others to grow stronger, encourage them to express how they live right next to you is accumulated again. To create a community stronger and stronger peopleis the journey we have already begun. I encourage you to be with him how to build a life even stronger after the storm.
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