{"id":25377,"date":"2012-07-28T00:56:42","date_gmt":"2012-07-28T04:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=25377"},"modified":"2012-07-28T06:45:58","modified_gmt":"2012-07-28T10:45:58","slug":"badgepostscript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2012\/07\/28\/badgepostscript\/","title":{"rendered":"badge postscript<\/sup>…"},"content":{"rendered":"
Speaking of PTSD, I spent the day working in the clinic, but I had an apprehensive background feeling all day. When I got home, I realized why. It’s the Olympics and tonight was the opening ceremony. As 30 year olds, we were spending two weeks at the 1972 Munich games when disaster struck, and then we were among the thousands that walked aimlessly in that beautiful Park when the Games were suspended and tragic events unfolded. The Games went on, but we were all dazed. We flew back to England where I was stationed from Fürstenfeldbruck Air Field [that’s where the Israeli athletes were killed a few days before]. The night we flew home, we were strip searched, and surrounded by scared soldiers with machine guns. When we got back to England, people asked what it was like, and I didn’t know what to say. I still don’t. I think of that when I see traumatized patients who have no adequate way to describe the fog of their experience.<\/div>\n

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So as much as I enjoy the Olympics, I alway have a periodic sense of dread. When the Olympics came to Atlanta in 1996, it never left me. After the bomb went off in Centennial Olympic Park, I had another unanticipated feeling – almost like relief. The bad thing had happened and I could let down my guard. Strange. I wouldn’t have said that being at those 1972 Olympics was traumatic<\/em>, but it’s now forty years later, and some version of those feelings never fails to come up every two years during Olympic time, always catching me by surprise. Like most, I say "that was a long time ago – it shouldn’t still bother me." Well, it does. I think that’s a lite version of Terr’s #3, trauma specific fears<\/em> [badge 3…<\/font><\/a><\/strong><\/u>]… <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speaking of PTSD, I spent the day working in the clinic, but I had an apprehensive background feeling all day. When I got home, I realized why. It’s the Olympics and tonight was the opening ceremony. As 30 year olds, we were spending two weeks at the 1972 Munich games when disaster struck, and then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25377"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25388,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25377\/revisions\/25388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}