{"id":38795,"date":"2013-12-10T08:31:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T13:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38795"},"modified":"2013-12-10T08:31:20","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T13:31:20","slug":"nation-of-victims-gets-pts-from-their-tvs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38795","title":{"rendered":"Nation of victims gets PTS from their TVs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our buddy, Blanka, sends us a link to an LA Times<\/a> article which reports that researchers think that we can catch the PTSD from our televisions. They surveyed 4,675 residents of New York City and Boston right after the Boston Marathon Bombing and found that nearly 5% of them had “high acute stress”;<\/p>\n

After the researchers adjusted for the effects of direct exposure to a trauma and for exposure to past community trauma, they found that respondents with a prior history of mental health problems and those who had watched six or more hours of daily media coverage of the events surrounding the bombings were most likely to report high acute-stress symptoms.<\/p>\n

Direct exposure to the bombings — having been there or being in a close relationship with someone who was affected — was a strong predictor of ongoing stress reactions. Another strong predictor was direct exposure to the events of Sept. 11 or the Dec. 14, 201,2 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. (but not to Superstorm Sandy, which devastated the New Jersey coast in October 2012).<\/p>\n

But the single factor that most strongly predicted high stress reactions was having watched six or more hours a day of media coverage of the bombings and their aftermath.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, they can turn the TV off, ya know and that would substantially reduce their exposure to the whole thing. We’ve heard it all here at TAH when members of the Iraq Veterans Against the war have claimed that they caught the PTS from <\/p>\n