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8.14.2011

The Atlantic on the Middle Class Squeeze, PTSD from 9/11

Michael Snyder - Michael Snyder is the editor of theeconomiccollapseblog.com.
16 Amazing Facts on the Middle Class Squeeze By Michael Snyder
Editor's note: The last three years have decimated the middle class, leaving behind a trail of foreclosures, joblessness and devastated wealth. To illustrate the range of suffering, Michael Snyder, editor of editor of The Economic Collapse blog, assembled a collection of statistics that paint a full picture of the crisis.
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and 9/11
Ten years later, demons still haunt
"Running naked from her bath, she saw pigeons and paper flying through the air. “It’s kind of beautiful in a way,” she recalls on the recording she made and listened to over and over as part of her treatment. “There’s these silver pieces just floating in the air.”
Her gaze met the hole in the tower. “The flames get worse, and then I start seeing all these people hanging out there. The guy with this white towel, and he’s waving it.”
He jumps. Children at a nearby school scream.
“How are you feeling?” her therapist, David Bricker, is heard asking on the tape.
“I start crying,” she replies"
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