LUSHAN, Sichuan, April 26
(Xinhua) -- Anxious and worn out, Xiao
Cheng sat silently as class took
a break in a makeshift school
which is a tent.
The
16-year-old has found it difficult to
sleep and is easily startled ever
since the 7.0-magnitude earthquake severely
damaged his home in Lushan County,
southwest China's Sichuan Province, on
April 20.
"The aftershocks are
so scary that I am afraid of
losing my family," said the slim
teenager who barely survived the
earthquake with his family.
In
a counselling center set up in
the tent school in Longmen Township,
Xiao Cheng (alias) took an hour-long
session playing computer games and
deep breathing with Zhu Zhuohong, a
counsellor with the Institute of
Psychology of Chinese Academy of
Sciences (CAS).
"I feel more
relaxed now", said Xiao Cheng after
the session.
What Xiao Cheng
is going through, according to Zhu,
is a post-traumatic response as
constant flashbacks of the disaster
causes excessive concern of future
shocks.
In the face of
an earthquake that destroyed lives and
properties, psychological intervention is
needed to help people deal with
the quake's emotional impact and
move on.
Counselling services
are still available for survivors five
years after an 8.0-magnitude earthquake
struck Wenchuan in the same province,
leaving about 87,000 people dead or
missing and more than 370,000
injured.
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