George Bonanno
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364 appearances
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard Aug 2025
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And when I first began my career, it was assumed that hardly anybody would show that pattern.
And if they did show that pattern, there was something wrong with them.
That was the denial idea.
When we began to actually look, is what I did in my research, which was the only novel thing about this research was that we just looked and measured
the range of possible responses to see how many people were showing these responses.
When we actually did that, we found that the majority, it's almost always the majority that's showing that pattern.
Most people experience short-term distress, upheaval, and then they continue to function normally after that.
It's not that they don't care.
It's not that they're not saddened or upset by the event, but they move on with their lives.
Yes, absolutely.
We've now done this.
My team has done a lot of this, but other research teams are also doing this.
We've seen these patterns in now about 100 different studies, actually, for everything from the worst kinds of events like, you know,
Traumatic injury, mass shooting, spinal cord injury, two things that are like loss and relationship, divorce.
We've seen it for financial problems, losing a job, etc.
So it's the range of anything that's sort of a serious event that somebody is going to go through that's going to upheave them, cause upheaval in their life for a while.
We'll see these same patterns.
Well, I've been doing this for a long time, Shankar.
I've been doing this for about 35 years now.
So initially it was difficult.
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