> how my teacher rushed to turn off the television we were all watching the launch on once it was clear what was happening
It’s funny, this is what causes trauma... if you interrupt the stress reaction and try to make it go away, you hold onto it. If animals are allowed to go through their full stress cycle, they forget the trauma.
To be fair, they might have feared what more was about to come through that tv set. Or the impending wrath from parents when little Billy can't sleep at night. Was such concerns (parents) a thing in the 80s already?
It’s funny, this is what causes trauma... if you interrupt the stress reaction and try to make it go away, you hold onto it. If animals are allowed to go through their full stress cycle, they forget the trauma.