WITHIN THE FIRST 24 - 48 HOURS periods of appropriate physical exercise, alternated with relaxation will alleviate some of the physical reactions. Structure your time - keep busy. You're normal and having normal reactions - don't label yourself crazy. Talk to people - talk is the most healing medicine. Be aware of numbing the pain with overuse of drugs or alcohol; you don't need to complicate this with a substance abuse problem. Reach out - people do care. Maintain as normal a sc ...

Return to index of Proceedings XX, click here. INTERGENERATIONAL MULTI-CULTURAL PTSD: A NATIVE AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE Darlene Kawennano:ron Johnson, MSW Eagle Vision, Inc. Post Office Box 1584 Mesa, Arizona 85211-1584 Today, many Native American Indian people suffer from intergenerational pain, grief, anxiety, and stress which began hundreds of years ago with the onset of manifest destiny: a term loosely used to define the beginning of the end for many Native people. It was the end of free ...