I have personally looked after hundreds of dying people, striving to treat them with the compassion and dignity I'd expect for myself, and been with many as they drew their last breaths, and never shed a tear over even one of them. It was work.
Yes.
Some people have to do it and some don't.
So an engineer/inventor who was taken of the beaches at Dunkirk then worked for military intelligence cannot compartmentalise but you can? Perhaps you are not being neutral or objective?
If the female police officer had previously been raped, then there may well be an unconscious influence. Although I would hope that in professional cases like this, training would take over to prevent any kind of bias.
That's exactly the point I was coming to. The ability of (say) hospital staff to deal with the deaths of patients is down to their their training. They have to learn not to take others' issues and grief to heart. If they do, they can discuss it at their regular Supervision meeting with their manager.
It's about being aware though, knowing that you're going to deal with (dreaded word) triggers.
Perhaps.This is another thread where the diversions are more interesting than the actual subject.
I've forgotten what we were on about now.
I got so used to dealing with corpses (aka Mary, Bill etc that I'd been chatting with only a day or two earlier). We just got used to it in the end sad to say. We braced ourselves to be sensitive to the relatives with our 7 stages of grief training but it hit us hard as well. We met them in the first stage which is denial, then it's anger which I only had to help someone with once, the last one's acceptance. Maurice would have still been going through this because of the loss of his own daughter while he was at Enfield. I think that's what Escargot was saying Stormkhan.
I've come to the conclusion after decades of considering the issue that females are "better" at this compartment thing than males. I've still not come to any conclusion whether this is a good or bad thing.
(Thread drift where's Max when you need him.)
The thread title at the top of the page is "The Enfield Poltergeist".
This is one of the threads I click on just to get it out of my notifications. I need to stop letting myself be idly drawn in.
We went to see it and once I got over the feeling that Catherine Tate was going to interupt the frankly over-controlling males and out-of-control family and shout "here's one for you, boy", "am I bothered?" and "what a f***ing liberty!" it was kind of OK, if a little underwhelming on the script writing and acting front. I would have been happier if it was playing outside of London as the vastly inflated ticket price (and the crippling theatre seats) didn't really warrant the experience.
And also how they could be such bad quality that previous recordings and tape artifact noise could bleed through recordings.
I had that happen once. It was 'metal tape', really only designed for recording once.
There's been experiments on thought form manifestations, the most famous being Phillip deliberately created to 'see what happens'.
It is certainly true that before Grosse arrived on the scene there was poltergeist activity and that he can be heard on the tapes pretty much demanding that 'it' talk to him
