George Bonanno
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard Aug 2025
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I vividly remember, you know, I was having nightmares about planes crashing where I lived in New York City.
It was a lot of uncertainty, and uncertainty makes people uneasy.
So initially, it looked like, I wouldn't say it looked like an unprecedented epidemic even at that point, though, because those numbers are not that different from other kinds of major stressors.
But they were high.
Yes, they were very high.
Well, the numbers dropped precipitously, and by six months, they were more or less back to normal.
They were quite low by six months for the city on the whole.
Yeah, I would say there's a little bit of denial about this.
There were a lot of mental health professionals and researchers who simply didn't focus on that so much.
And there was no shortage of psychological casualties because of the number of people involved.
So they were focusing on that.
But some mental health researchers argued that basically this indicated that we were wrong about our prognosis, that people were upset, but being upset at something of that magnitude is actually what you would expect.
And so being upset for a while, especially when the damage
reverberated through the city for some time because it damaged infrastructure.
It required rethinking many things.
That was actually quite normative.
And that was what dissipated.
So we mistook that kind of emotional, intense reaction as psychopathology.
Yes.
Yes.
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