"Where it's nine-eleven all the time
and no Sun sets, and no clocks chime
where no voice speaks and no bird trills
the Moon hangs frozen o'er the hills
The winds are still, they seem to say,
Reflect, remember, stop to pray..."
Posted on 05/26/2006 1:00:21 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
Nearly two-thirds of the people who got counseling after the Sept. 11 attacks are still grieving, and more than four in 10 still need professional help to cope, according to a study sponsored by the American Red Cross.
The study, released Friday, evaluated counseling, health services and other aid the Red Cross Sept. 11 recovery program provided to thousands of family members, first responders and others directly affected by the 2001 attacks. It also surveyed 1,501 people who received Red Cross aid.
The Red Cross provided more than $700 million in assistance between 2002 and 2005 and has given about $90 million more since then to other nonprofit groups that will provide services for at least another year.
Forty-three percent of those surveyed said they still need therapy, financial aid to pay bills or other health services.
The executive director of the recovery program, Alan Goodman, said the survey proved that those who lost loved ones or escaped death on Sept. 11 may be permanently scarred.
For those who complained of post-traumatic stress disorder, he said recovery could take "many, many years if there is recovery, if ever."
Sixty-three percent of people who received mental health services after the attacks said that grief and anxiety interfered with their lives to a large or moderate extent, the study said.
About three-quarters of the people who sought counseling said it helped them, while two in 10 said they were unsatisfied, mostly because their aid didn't cover enough counseling sessions.
The Red Cross said it planned to stop all of its indirect aid to nonprofit organizations in the next year or two. One organization, the Mental Health Association of New York City, has received more than $15 million in Red Cross aid to counsel Sept. 11 survivors. Its programs are set to expire at the end of 2007.
About 12,000 people have enrolled since 2002, said Sanja Blazekovic, who coordinates Sept. 11 mental health benefits for the organization. She said that in the past six months, more civilians than first responders have enrolled, upset about press coverage about the trial of Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, rebuilding controversies and reports of a growing number of ailing or dying ground zero workers.
The survey, prepared by the Washington, D.C.-based Urban Institute and Princeton Survey Research Associates International, was conducted by telephone between mid-July and mid-December in 2005, excluding a three-week period around the fourth anniversary of the attacks. The margin of error was plus or minus 3 percentage points.
I'm more inclined to think it was the counselors who were grieving.
Cry me a river. Why were the deaths on 9/11 more traumatic than the death of a father on the way home from work who is killed by a drunk driver?
Sometimes, providing aid creates the need for more aid.
"Of course they are grieving..."
Those were my thoughts, also, as I was reading this ap dbm article. I do hope they all are receiving good counseling.
Misleading headline. The 3/4 only refers to those ~who sought counseling~ not 3/4 of all those affected.
Your Father's death wasn't played on tv 24/7 for the next three weeks after?
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Most likely "the professional help" needs professional help.
"Where it's nine-eleven all the time
and no Sun sets, and no clocks chime
where no voice speaks and no bird trills
the Moon hangs frozen o'er the hills
The winds are still, they seem to say,
Reflect, remember, stop to pray..."
Study: Democrats forget 9/11, Say Biggest Threat to America is "Conservative Thought"
"not recovered"..."still grieving"? Of course they are, and they will continue to. What the heck is "recovered"? It doesn't bother you anymore? You don't remember it?
There is no such thing as recovery in these cases. They will always remember it, always feel sad about their missing loved ones, and will have to learn to live with those feelings, while, hopefully, living a full and joyful life.
Neither were theirs. Not individually, and rarely collectively. BTW - my Dad was killed in Vietnam. It doesn't mean I flip out when someone shows a clip of a Huey going down.
It has also been 5 years. These people need to get on with life. In the case I mentioned, the grieving family doesn't get huge sums of money dropped into their laps, or a battery of grief counselors, or telethons collecting to make sure their kids can go to college.
The 9/11 families received collectively the most comprehensive death benefits package ever assembled - and they are still whining.
BTW - when my Dad died in Vietnam, I DID get to see folks like Kerry claiming military officers such as my Dad were inhuman criminals. The 9/11 families didn't have to put up with anyone saying their Dads deserved to die.
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You must have forgotten Ward Churchill & Tom Tomorrow & Jerry Falwell (or was it Pat Robertson?).
I didn't forget anything relevant. The religous guys you mention said America was being judged with this horrible event - NOT that the folks killed in 9/11 deserved to die. All the folks you mention were roundly condemned as kooks or worse.
During Vietnam, many celebrities and politicians accused our military of war crimes. Their accusations were applauded by the MSM, and thousands marched.
So it isn't in any way analogous.
And my main point remains - the 9/11 families received an incredible outpouring of sympathy and counseling and money. Why does the family of a 9/11 victim need $1.6M, while the family of a drunk driver victim gets nothing?
In the end, most of us need to face death in the family and deal with it - and we don't take 5+ years and millions of dollars to do it.
The reason they were given money is because the families could have sued the Airlines, the Airport, Port Authority the government for damages. In order to get the money, the families had to give up their right to sue. The family of a drunk driver can sue for damages in civil court.
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