> "hY" hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> After the Tsunami's a few years ago, I was working for the Red Cross. My
>> little team would work our normal shift and then volunteer a bunch of
>> hours after each shift. After a few weeks or maybe a month of this, our
>> supervisors found out. We were told to go home because "we would pay in
>> our own little way" after the crisis was over.
>>
>> I found this to be very true. (Placebo effect?)

>
> Nope. A somewhat different psychological effect. Post-traumatic stress.
>

>> After my time there, I would have nightmares every night about how I
>> needed to do this or do that in order to help these people out. I felt
>> that I was in a state of shock, even though non of this happened to me.
>> Where as during the crisis, I had all sorts of energy and didn't have any
>> problems working the longer shifts.

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> http://panicdisorder.about.com/od/emergencyresponseworkers/a/selfcaretips.htm