How To Survive a Shark Attack (Encore)

How To! with Mike Pesca

Peach Fish Projects

Education, How To

4.3 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

David was in the ocean in Hawaii when the unthinkable happened—a shark attacked him and bit off his leg. "I don't think you're gonna make it," a medic told the 25-year-old on the helicopter ride to the hospital. But David did make it, and soon he learned that surviving the shark wasn't the hardest part—it was what came after. On this episode of How To!, we bring in Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, psychiatrist and author of The Body Keeps the Score, to help David understand and deal with the lasting psychological trauma of the attack. For anyone suffering from severe trauma, Bessel says, it's okay to grieve the person you were before. Accepting the loss of the "old you" will allow you to better embrace who you are now, both in your mind and body.

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1:01.3	Since we're off this week, we wanted to bring you one of our most popular episodes from the archive.
1:06.6	It's perfect for beach season, How to Survive a Shark Attack.
1:11.7	I'm going to hand things off to former host Charles Duhigg, and we'll see you here next week.
1:18.1	I kind of just got out of the hospital and my hands in this like crazy cast, my legs in like a crazy cast.
1:25.3	And there's this guy on the elevator, we'll call him Chad, because he was
1:29.5	kind of a bro. And Chad has like a cast on his risk. And so his friend asked him, oh, how did you get that?
1:37.5	And he goes, oh, I was attacked by a shark. And I was like, oh, no way, me too. And then both
1:42.1	them just like looked terrified and, realized I wasn't kidding.
1:49.5	Welcome to how to. I'm Charles Stewart.
1:52.9	If you're anything like me, this is the time of year when you go to the beach and you surf and you swim and you hang out in the water.
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