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Kansas City mental health expert weighs in on reactions to violence
Kansas City mental health expert weighs in on reactions to violence
and last updated 2021-05-03 23:53:44-04
KANSAS CITY, Mo. â Seeing and hearing about all the violence in a community can be sickening, according to Kansas City area doctors. Your amygdala starts spinning out of control, and then once you get into that situation, you can t rationalize your way out of it, Dr. Sasha Hamdani, a psychiatrist at the Psychiatry Associates of Kansas City, said. So yes, you can have these situations where you just get absolutely overwhelmed with it.