Pierre Rouzier, a medical doctor from Amherst, was as prepared as anyone could be for responding to the
carnage that unfolded in April 2013 when two bombs were detonated at the Boston Marathon.
What he wasn’t quite prepared for was the after-effect of witnessing the type of bloodshed usually seen only in a war zone, painful memories that left him with insomnia, irritability and other problems, until he sought out specialized therapeutic treatment offered for free by the Western Massachusetts EMDR Trauma Recovery Network.
...In the days and weeks after the bombing, Rouzier did not have much time to process what had happened. The next day, he was off to a sports medicine conference in San Diego and also fielding interviews from the media. But over the next week or two, the magnitude of what occurred on that horrific day struck him and he began to be plagued by nightmares, flashbacks, irritability and other problems.
Rouzier was bolstered by the support of students and colleagues at UMass, but was relieved to get a call from an old friend, retired Amherst psychiatrist Benjamin Levy, who asked how he was doing. When Rouzier admitted he was having some troubles, Levy suggested EMDR.
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