on the telephone is dr. patricia watson, a senior education specialist at the national center for post traumatic stress disorder, assistant psychiatry professor at date muth medical school. doctor, are these going to be lifetime emotions for these miners? they will bear this for the rest of their day? caller: well, i think when anything like this happens to anyone, it will be with them for the rest of their life. it's meant to change you. in many ways when you go through somethingb this big. toze whether or not they will be suffering from it, that's a different question because for many people, this type of thing is the essential wake-up call that we hear about that brings them closer to a sense of what is important to them in life, who means something to them, what they want to do with their lives, how they make meaning in their life. and for a certain percentage of people, they tell carry with