As long as their caregivers remain calm and responsive to their needs, they often survive terrible incidents without serious psychological scars.įive-year-old Noam’s drawing made after he witnessed the World Trade Center attack on 9/11. During disasters young children usually take their cues from their parents. His entire family was unharmed, he had grown up surrounded by love, and he was able to grasp that the tragedy they had witnessed had come to an end. What was a trampoline doing there? Noam explained, “So that the next time when people have to jump they will be safe.” I was stunned: This five-year-old boy, a witness to unspeakable mayhem and disaster just twenty-four hours before he made that drawing, had used his imagination to process what he had seen and begin to go on with his life. I had no idea what it was, so I asked him. But at the bottom of the picture he had drawn something else: a black circle at the foot of the buildings. The drawing depicted what he had seen the day before: an airplane slamming into the tower, a ball of fire, firefighters, and people jumping from the tower’s windows. When we returned home, Noam was still awake, and he showed me a picture that he had drawn at 9:00 a.m. Ten days later I visited his family, who are friends of mine, and that evening his parents and I went for a walk in the eerie darkness through the still-smoking pit where Tower One once stood, making our way among the rescue crews who were working around the clock under the blazing klieg lights. Noam, his older brother, and their dad were three of the tens of thousands of people who ran for their lives through the rubble, ash, and smoke of lower Manhattan that morning. He and his classmates ran with their teacher down the stairs to the lobby, where most of them were reunited with parents who had dropped them off at school just moments earlier. O n September 11, 2001, five-year-old Noam Saul witnessed the first passenger plane slam into the World Trade Center from the windows of his first-grade classroom at PS 234, less than 1,500 feet away. Before brains the universe was also free of pain and anxiety. Prior to the advent of brain, there was no color and no sound in the universe, nor was there any flavor or aroma and probably little sense and no feeling or emotion. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma CHAPTER 4 RUNNING FOR YOUR LIFE: THE ANATOMY OF SURVIVAL
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