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RE: ARTICLE: Fallout likely caused 15,000 deaths
Ruth,
Fear is like pain. It is subjective. And the question is how much does
interfere with your life. If fear of radiation is severely interfering with
your life, then the condition should be recognized as a medical disease and
be treated. If you respond to a poll and say the you are afraid of
radiation, that is something else. For the people around Chernobyl, there
may be a lot of problems from which the people suffer. Poverty, alcoholism,
malnutrition, unemployment, and maybe even post traumatic stress associated
with the accident. They should be given the support they need to move on
with their lives. No matter what the problem, if they get support they may
get better.
And you are quite right. I think that most of the people around TMI do not
suffer the same anguish. I do not think they suffered the same trauma.
Again, I think they fear radiation and TMI when they are asked about it.
Ted Rockwell alluded to this phenomenon. Unfortunately, I think some in
this country look for things to worry about. Look at all of the
pharmaceutical advertisements on television.
Again, get a grid on it!
-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
3050 Traymore Lane
Bowie, MD 20715-2024
E-mail: jenday1@email.msn.com (H)
-----Original Message-----
From: RuthWeiner@aol.com [mailto:RuthWeiner@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 1:26 PM
To: Jacobus, John (OD/ORS); radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: Re: ARTICLE: Fallout likely caused 15,000 deaths
I am not questioning that post-traumatic stress syndrome exists. However,
actually being mugged and being in a battle in a war is far, far more
frightening and stressful than hearing about TMI on the radio or reading it
in the newspaper and never noticing any physical health consequence at all.
Even if the person fears cancer, the FEAR is likely to fade with the passage
of time. And what would trigger post-traumatic stress in someone who lived
in Harrisburg when TMI happened? A radio program? A newspaper?
I just do not think one can compare having lived in Harrisburg, PA, or even
in the Chernobyl fallout, AND HAVING SUFFERED NO PHYSICAL HEALTH EFFECT AT
ALL, with shell-shock, or battle stress, or being a crime victim.
Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.
ruthweiner@aol.com
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