Straight Talk With Sandra Reich

Have you ever experienced a life-threatening event or witnessed an abuse? Your response in these moments is called your Fight or Flight response. It is a common, normal, and often adaptive response to experiencing a traumatic or stressful event. It is a normal reflex during – and sometimes even after – a traumatic event. Most people who experience such events recover from them, but, it’s also not unusual for people who have experienced traumatic events to have flashbacks, nightmares, or intrusive memories when something terrible happens. How do you know whether your post-traumatic stress response is normal or has crossed into a disorder? How do you cope in the aftermath of a traumatic event? Join Sandra and her colleague, Melissa Hindley, as they discuss this weighty topic and offer solutions to your deeper questions.