Crisis 2
Crisis
Introduction
Crisis mean a crucial or decisive point or situation, it’s the do or die moment in which the
protagonist must gather all their power and courage in order to wean the opposing forces. One
morning a strange face entered in my office looking for help. The victim was suffering from
emotional trauma as she looked confused, panic attack, emotional shock and anxiety (Figley,
2013).
Without even knowing where to begin, she started to narrate what happened and she said.
“There is a bank robbery that has happened on our bank few minute ago and the whole thing
only lasted about five minutes and the situation has sure changed my life forever I never
experienced strange thing like this before, like forever I never thought it would happen to me,
just I can’t stop thinking about that gun. And all I could do is look at that gun ,Like i could not
give a description to the police officer of this, all I could do is say he at that big black ham
gun”(Cadwalladr, 2017). First of all I acknowledged her spoken feelings and I encouraged the
victim to spend most of his time in peaceful activities .example to spend time with friends and
family and to leave the house for a little while each day to avoid that pain protracted and
interfering with daily life (Cadwalladr, 2017). I advised the victim that, it’s normal, it’s normal
to feel overwhelmed or helpless. You may feel numb as if disconnected from your body, or
experience a sense of immobilization and it may seem as if it was a bad dream (Cadwalladr,
2017). The victim interrupted me and continued to express her feeling by saying that
“First thought was like, is this really happening? Didn’t seem like it was a really event, kind of
like you’re watching it happened to somebody else (Kienzler, 2008). I think I was so terrified, I
numbed up” .But I showed the victim it’s normal to experience some of these events by telling

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