June is National PSTD Awareness Month and as our understanding of trauma has changed, so have our tools for coping with it. After Lawrence O’Donnell, the host of MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell was in a head-on auto collision last April, he discovered something that a lot of health-conscious people were already aware of: Watching the news can be stressful.
After the trauma of his accident, O’Donnell had serious injuries, and for much of his recovery, the Daily Beast reports that he “discovered that it was best not to expose himself to newspapers or television, or media of any kind, lest he have to digest bad news that would set him back psychologically; he was a quivering mass of raw nerve endings.” Read More →
