Ways to help yourself in times of stress

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David Handschuh, the New York Daily News photographer who was nearly killed

in the line of duty at Ground Zero during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center Twin Towers, offered to editors some advice on how to deal with trauma and stress.

He was speaking to API’s Executive and Managing Editors seminar November 13 about his experiences on that fateful day when thousands were killed when hijacked aircraft slammed into the New York City landmarks, the Pentagon and a countryside in rural Pennsylvania.

Handschuh, still suffering the effects on a compound fracture of his right leg when he was flung into the air and under debris as the South Tower collapsed, has spent the two months since the attack talking with editors and other groups on the importance of peer support for photojournalists and other new people who have witnessed horror while doing their work.

Some of his self-help advice:

wwatson@bsu.edu