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Now today we're going to be
Talking about the very serious topic of war
And how it affects children some of the discussions
You here will mention death and trauma
We won't go go detagram
If you think think may feel feel pcomfortable
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That's about one in every five children eldwide in this episode will hear from fergal keen on the bbc world service program
The gloloal al story fergl is a bb c reporter
Best known for reporting from war zones around the world
And as a result he developed ptsd
Which is a type of stress disorder
We'll be finding out
What ptsd stands for at the end of the program
Now in the collapse will hear asma haalled ask fgol keen about his own experience with childhootrauma fogogo grew up in a home within alcoholic father
Asthma wanted to know how fgol's own childhood trauma affected his reporting on the experiences of children in wzones
I was hyper vigilant
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From the very earliest stage obviously watching out
You know i'm
I under tress is
Is there a danger to me
Here fergle mentions that he was hyper vigilant
Because he was in dangerous situations as a child
The adjective vigilant means always be careful to notice things particularly when thealways a cability of danger
Yes
And the prefect hyper expresses that there is a lot of or even too much of something though neutral is often use in negative or critical contexts
So hyper vigilant means very very careful
Sometimes too careful and fortful hyyvigilance that now is a state of extreme alertness and sensitivity to surroundings possibly because of extreme anxiety
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Now let's have from fggas as talks ks research ch the experiences of children in war zones mean they disagree about a few things
But on this there absolutely of one mind fergle mentions that they the researchers disagree about their findings
But their absolutely of one mind
When considering the recovery from war rammif you are of one mind
You are of a group of people that share the same opinion
Desire or vieviewpoint on a matter
Researchers may disagree on whether the experiences of children in wzones is improving
But on the point of recovery
They are of one mind in that you can't recover from war trauma
If you continue living with it
Vergogo goes on to talk about some of the ways in which these children might be helped
And so there's a new field of terory
Well i mean relatively new field of theory
Which encourages children too slowly and carefully try to confront obviously not death and massacre again
But things like learning to sleep alone not having to sleep with a parent
Because that's what they did during the war
Because they're was so consistently terrified
Now it sounds like a simple thing
But as anybody who's tried to push a child to sleep
Who's had a nightmare
A child d hasn't been traummatized
Will know it's very difficult
Fgal says
That children n should be encouraged to slowly and carefully try to confront their experiences
To confront something is to meet with it or deal with it for the children to confront their terrifying experiences
They must start with more simple things like learning to sleep alone
Sleeping alone seems simple enough
But figugo compares the experiences of children in war zones to that of children who might have nightmres yes and a nightmare is a very scary or upsetting dream
He can also be used metaphorically to describe unpleasant events or experiences
Now let's here ergal talking about what he's learned from reporting on children in war zones
The big lesson is that
Is that given a chance
The human spirit and especially chilchiln n are phenomenally resilient
Fergle describes chilchiln n as being phenomenally resilient
The now phenomenon or phenomenon in its ploral form refers to an observable fact or event that can be experienced through the senses
The adverb
Phenomenally descriribe something being done or felt in an extreme or surprising way to be resilient is to be able to recover from and come back from something difficult or bad
That's happened
So fergal says
That children can be surprisingly positive
Despite the negative things happening around them
They are phenomenally resilient
A result of these negative things could be ptsd earlier
We mentioned ptsd
And it stands for post
Traumatic stress disorder yes and the p in ptsd stands for post
As we've just heard
And the prefix post expresses something that happens after or as a result of the event
It's attached to now let's wick up vocabubulwe first had hyyvigillant that is to be very careful or maybe almost too careful to notice things particularly
When there is a possibility of danger to be of one mind is to be part of a group of people that share the same opinion
Desire or viewpoint on a matter
We had confront something that is to meet with it or do with it
A nightmare is a scary or upsetting dream to do something phenomenally ally is to do it in an extreme or surpriway way to be resilient
Ant is to be able to recover and come back from something difficult or bad
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