【災害時のメンタルケア】
[Mental Care for Emergency Situation]
◆1.今こそ自分自身のメンタルケアを。
◆1Pay attention to your own mental state.
今はまだ地震直後であり、だれでもアドレナリンが噴出している時です。こういう時
は何かをしたくてたまらなくなりますが、まずはその自分自身の感覚に意識を向けて
みましょう。細々意識してみることをトラッキングといいます。
自分自身に対するサポートを最初にしてください。
私たちが落ち着いているか、不安エネルギーをまき散らしているかによって、様々な
ことが違ってきます。
Right after the disaster, many people may experience adrenalin rush and feel an urge to 'do something'. Let's try to calm down and try to be conscious about your emotion carefully. (This process is called 'Tracking')
You must support yourself first.
Being calm or being panicked makes big differences to many situations.
◆2. テレビの視聴には気をつけてください。*特にお子様、感受性の強い老若男女
の方々。
◆2. Pay attention to your intake of images on media (especially infant and youth, or anyone who is sensitive)
身体がだるくなったり、ボーッとしたり、涙が出てきたり、妙な罪悪感が湧いてきた
り、不安状態にある自分に気づいたら、即刻テレビを消すか、必要なニュース速報の
みが流れてくる全く違う番組にしてください。
If you feel tired or numb, cannot focus on things, cannot control your emotion, feel strangely guilty, etc., realizing yourself being nervous, you must turn off the TV screen immediately, or change the channel to the station provide you very necessary information (such as news alert).
Some tragic and horrifying images are repeated endlessly on TV for this disaster. Unfortunately, many medias tend to focuses on those images and many people feel pinned in front of TV screen.
Being exposed to those tragic images cannot be good at this point.
*** What we need the most right now is the necessary information for safety and survival!***
◆4. Pay attention to keep the communication with people.
It is very important to have communications with people around you when you're in the emergency situation. It is very natural feeling that you want to be with someone.
Let's try to tell that feeling openly to the person close to you, or share it with the community you are in right now.
Writing e-mails may help you express your emotion as well.
There are many people reported that they felt calming down by writing down their feeling in mails or messages to the others.