Tag Archive: Post-traumatic stress disorder

Sep 28 2010

Survivor of a workplace standoff helps others deal with violence

By Troy Graham, The Philadelphia Inquirer Jim Giblin was on the phone in his office when he saw Dennis Schuler, the maintenance man he had recently fired, walking toward the door with a box under his arm. “Dennis comes in, and I hear the receptionist shout, ‘Oh, my God,’ ” Giblin said. “He pulls the …

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Jul 30 2010

When Trauma Survivors Return to Work

By Kevin Spence, CapeGazette.com Barbara Barski-Carrow knows what it’s like to lose a job. Long before the economic downturn, she said she was laid off because of downsizing, an event that left her confused, angry and searching for answers. “I was traumatized,” she said. Following her dismissal, she enrolled in Georgetown University, where she received …

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Jun 17 2010

Workplace bullying in the UK

from guardian.co.uk As the UK holds its national Ban Bullying At Work Day, Maureen Levey explains how three years’ worth of bullying in the workplace led to her being hospitalised earlier in 2007 with trauma, depression and anxiety. She describes how her ordeal drove her to the brink of suicide and why she hopes her …

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Dec 08 2008

Months later, worker haunted by slaughter

By Cindy Gonzalez, Omaha World Herald Nine months later, the horror of it all hit him. Jim Andresen – a Von Maur janitor who hunkered in a closet while a madman turned his second home into a killing field – doesn’t know what triggered the flashbacks. He just knows he was jolted out of a …

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