George Bonanno

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Hidden Brain · The Trauma Script · 25 Aug 2025 podcast

But then he began to have these just vividly intense memories of the entire accident because, as I mentioned, he was fully conscious for this accident.

So he was replaying all of these memories for several days.

And then to his surprise, and I think to maybe everybody's surprise, it more or less just stopped.

It took about a week.

And then all of these intrusive memories and intense replaying of the accident simply just stopped.

And he was confused by that.

Yes, he was wondering his exact words.

Why was I doing OK?

And he said, this is really my question.

Why was I doing OK?

He'd already taken psychology classes before this accident, but he went back and finished his master's degree, and then he ended up getting a PhD in clinical psychology.

Actually, he came to work with me, which is how I know him.

And he's now a professor of clinical psychology in a university.

The general consensus really was that this was going to be a mental health crisis of unprecedented proportions.

People were basically arguing that there were simply not enough resources for the kind of mental health problems that were coming.

And famously, FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency,

We allocated, I believe, about $130 million, which at the time was a lot more than it is now, for emergency funds in New York, mostly to provide free therapy for New Yorkers.

So there was this overarching belief that this is going to completely overwhelm the population.

We're going to be basically a city of traumatized people.

Yes, and actually, I think it affected people around the country in some ways even more because there were no cues that this had happened in the past.

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