Coping with the Zombie Apocalypse: Lessons From The Walking Dead

While sitting in her bed late at night, she takes out a journal and writes the names of every person she has killed over the years. She counts the total, and writes 18 in big numbers and circles it (Not Tomorrow Yet). At this point in time, she has not killed a person in quite a while. However, the emotional toll of her actions still follows her around. This does not stop her from killing a total of four zombies (low estimate) throughout this single episode. She defies the notion that warrior women need to be able to snap back to normal as soon as tragedy is over, and shows that emotion is a valid feeling for someone of a powerful disposition. While not being sexualized, Carol manages to successfully hold a relationship which goes against Douglas’s idea that warrior women need to be alone in order to be successful. A warrior woman is not allowed to have a healthy romantic relationship, and “the notion of [a warrior woman] having a boyfriend would be like Arnold Schwarzenegger having a crinoline” (Douglas

Daniel Drezner book addresses how the world would potentially react should the Zombie Apocalypse start while relating it to international relations. While discussing the anarchical nature of the world, in the realist argument, he addresses the fact that it is not likely that any one state would be able to gain complete control of the world. However, if the entire world is being overtaken by a zombie plague it is not outside the realm of possibility that survivors of various nations would come together and merge with whatever power still existed and divvy out more power to that group or individual. A good old fashioned military takeover would be just the thing to create an uneasy world-wide alliance with other militaristic organizations across the world against the zombie hordes. The military would easily be able to take charge in a global catastrophe of this nature relatively quickly and with little resistance from the common people. They are one of the most disciplined and structured organizations in regards to bureaucracy and other political organizations, and would not hesitate to change the protocols of war against an end-of-the-world type of threat such as a zombie takeover. Also, military tradition and codes of conduct cross borders with significantly more similarities than do political ideologies and governmental structures, which would result in there being a much easier and more unified alliance than could ever be achieved in any other global unification setting.

Ours is a violent world where even the most common folk can find themselves faced with unspeakable horror through little or no intention. In Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” the characters find themselves at the mercy of armed men because of a faulty memory and a few wrong turns. In Tobias Wolff’s “Hunters in the Snow,” a young man winds up shooting his friend in an apparent accident which culminates in a debate between saving that friend or whether it is more important to preserve the self. The stories work together to explore what humans will do when faced with terrible violence.

In the next lecture, Allan Wade immerses into how people react and resist violence, why it is significant to understand it and what difference it can make. In addition, Mr. Wade asserts that the details are essential in all contexts in order to get a tangible image of how human beings respond to violence. Several of the examples he presents later comes from his own experiences as a therapist.

Alleviating Trauma and Violence Life is inherently full of trauma and violence; while there is no conceivable precaution that may prevent violence and trauma from occurring, victims may find light in being hopeful of recovery and healing. The belief that persons exposed to trauma and violence will eventually find peace and become recovered or healed is ostensible; they will always be affected by their pain even if it be in miniscule ways. One may start to feel impotent when faced with the reality of the traumatic violence in their world. In order to heal and recover after the occurrence of violence and trauma individuals may look to consolation through memorializing people who were faced with violence and trauma or striving for vengeance while others may try to eliminate the cause of their distress.

The Zombie outbreak in The Walking Dead caused small communities of survivors to be created. Each community has its own group of members that citizens of that communities as long as their civic duty is met. Whereas today in America civic duties include paying taxes and jury duty, civic duties in The Walking Dead consist of pulling your own weight and trying to better the community towards a future. While out hunting, Carl is shot by a stranger who thought he was a zombie, the picture before Carl is shot, Carl, Tyreese, and Rick are shown as just dark shadows in the distant. The stranger Otis had no intention of shooting a kid but his fear of dark shadows approaching his community lead him to shoot before knowing what he was shooting at.

Carol is one of the main characters from this show called, ‘The Walking Dead’. She is one of the few survivors from this post-apocalyptic future where zombies are roaming around looking for their next victim. They all stick together for protection, but one of them leads Carol to make a hard decision. Lizzie is a girl who Carol had become a mother too and has suffered a serious psychiatric break, which made her believe that the zombies were misunderstood creatures that were entitled to be treated with respect, even if they weren’t exactly humans. This led Lizzie to turn another girl into a zombie and when Carol failed at trying to help her, she inevitably had to kill her for the protection of the rest.

It is natural as well as normal when a person experiences a struggle with emotions and trauma; it can have a major impact upon the psychological immune system. A specific event that causes pain and agony can leave an unhealed wound upon a person’s skin, leaving a scarring memory along with it. Therefore, pushing for the subconscious to repress such unpleasant feelings. There are many ways in which society associates and copes with trauma.

What I was before I became what I am, I do not care. You really want to know, don't you? All right, I'll tell you a little story. I was human

In a zombie apocalypse a person needs survival skills to stay alive. There is even a book called “How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse.” This book tells the readers the skills they need for the disaster such as short hair, tight clothes, aim for the zombie head and blades. The same can be said for college. A person needs survival skills to become successful throughout college. The situation might not be as scary as a zombie apocalypse which is life threatening, but it can be just as serious. Students need to use college survival skills to help them make their college lives easier because, some students become overwhelmed with the work they are given and how to juggle their regular lifestyle with their college lifestyle. Some students even drop out because they can’t keep up with the college work. But, college students don’t get too scared because, there are some survival skills that are here to help college students: developing a sensible schedule, socializing and networking and taking the initiative.

A zombie apocalypse is most definitely not a very friendly world. It is hard to find friends who aren’t going to shoot you on sight, and if you do find somebody, a thorough body inspection is in for the both of you. So what should you do, if the situation ever arises? I will explain to you the Do’s and Do not’s of a zombie apocalypse.

Natural and man-made disasters, crises, and other trauma-causing events have become a focus of the clinical mental health counseling profession because of the need to help people who experience such events and who may develop psychological disorders that arises from them. PTSD is a crippling outcome of many of these disasters and accounts for a large percentage of the major effects to not only those experiencing the disaster first hand, but also to the first-responders and members of the affected communities (Satcher, 2007).

Being the logical person that I am, surviving a population growth of zombies at my school would not be a real struggle. Other students my age would not hesitate to either hide in the most sophisticated of places, or run with gusto, and scream with all their might, chainsaw in hand, as they try to defend their fellow classmates. I, on the other hand, would take the better mannered approach. As a teenager, I have been taught all of my life to make new friends, and always be polite. So there would be no hiding for me. Instead, I would be socializing. Zombies aren’t dead and the chances of being killed rather than turned into an undead human by people that you know from school, walking dead or not, are slim. There is no point in living a life as

Research question: Why do I agree/disagree with the new meaning of life and world order in the popular hit television series The Walking Dead that highlights a new society after the collapse of the world as we know it?

In the possible occurrence of a zombie apocalypse, certain measures involving shelter, food, weapons, and fitness should be taken to better the chances of survival in such a desperate situation. Throughout the years, movies, television shows, and other miscellaneous hype have heightened a large number of people’s suspicion about the possibility of disease-ridden humans taking over the world. In reality, that atrocity is not exactly far-fetched. With so many vaccines and medicines being mass produced without the sufficient steps taken to test the results, the chance of humans contracting unimaginable side effects is a rational possibility. If