Young ‘Yolanda’ survivors ‘just overwhelmed’

A PSYCHOLOGIST from the University of the Philippines cautioned people from describing the conditions of Super Typhoon Yolanda victims as “traumatized” saying they are “just overwhelmed.”

“Being overwhelmed is a state that every disaster victim experiences which manifest reactions like most people who experience similar situations. But when we do psycho-social work we try to stay away from the word trauma because there are many psychiatric associations with that word.”