Imagine an experience of being trapped in a crowded elevator rising to the 35th floor when suddenly the power cuts off. Everything stops working and there is no light while you become painfully aware of being enclosed and suspended. Imagine being trapped underground in a mine for 69 days in Chile. Imagine being falsely imprisoned in a foreign land. Imagine being diagnosed with a terminal disease. Imagine being a combat soldier on your first mission, surrounded by enemy fire, when your best friend steps on a mine and is blown to pieces right next to you. Imagine your child is kidnapped. Imagine being dismembered. Imagine being a victim of rape. Imagine being carried away in a natural disaster.How long you endure the experience with its ubiquitous hopelessness and helplessness while plotted against time and the sustained nature of the experience with only the resources of hope, belief, prayer, skill and support. But what are our natural instincts and psychological, philosophical or religious endowments that enable us to overcome and survive?This work was written as a manual to explore the nature of recovery and introduce awareness of factors that facilitate adaptation and mastery over the trauma sustained in reality. Reality, as energy in laws of physics, can never be erased. What we do with the reality is the key to overcoming traumatic stress. There is always a conflict between the traumatic memories of reality and the defenses we use to combat the experiences. Successful therapy depends upon a process of learning and asking, "Where do my feelings go?"Prompted by the case studies of returning combat veterans of the Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan Wars suffering from the aftermath's physical trauma, Agent Orange exposure, genetic deformities of their children, divorce, addiction, criminality, estrangement, and a military system that had no psychological exit strategy to treat them, suicide might have been the road too often chosen.This book was written in an effort to reveal the back story of inquiry to understand the complexities involved in caring for those "survivors" as the prototype designated with unrelenting stressors plotted against time.Lastly, "Media-Terror" is the term the author uses to indicate the unrestrained media bombardment of a traumatic event that multiplies the collective discontent thereby contributing to a global stress crisis. For example, the media's promulgation of a "virus" disease, Hepatitis C, an entity that causes no symptoms, is hidden within the body forever, and its existence can only be determined by testing! Yet the pharmaceutical industry advertises its "cure" without objection from a feckless medical community mindless or ignorant of its passivity in contributing inordinate stress and confusion to a naïve public.