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This paper is based on two ideas. The first is Sartre’s idea that human freedom is inter-dependent. In choosing one’s own freedom, one must choose everyone else’s freedom as well. One ends up being in a state of bad faith, or state of hiding from one’s own freedom, if one oppresses, colonizes, discriminates or exploits others. Since for Sartre we define our humanity through our freedom, he believes that our humanity is also inter-dependent or what he calls our "integral humanity." The second idea is taken from environmental ethics. Biocentricists, in environmental ethics, believe that human life/history is an integral part of Nature - all is just one organism - and imbalance in any part of history and/or Nature has consequences for the organism as a whole. Sartre’s idea is ethical. Biocentricist idea is ecological. However, both seem to point in the same direction: our inter-dependence on each other and Nature. On the basis of these two ideas, a view for managing individual and collective panic attacks is developed. It is argued that all historic or natural disasters - 9/11, Tsunami, Katrina, Kashmir/Balakot Earthquake - point towards some imbalances in Nature and history. Obviously, we can never control all variables operating either in history or in Nature. Therefore, disasters - both man made and natural - will continue to be a part of our existence. However, we can adopt what might be called an "integrationist" approach to manage personal and collective panic when we are struck either by major disasters or by personal ones. Intergrationism can have the following components in this regard: a. Protection of personal and/or collective dignity and freedom through coming together by using moral, psychological, economic, political and spiritual resources. b. Rectification of imbalances in personal and/or collective and/or natural settings through positive behavioral and/or policy interventions. c. Sustaining of inter-personal and/or inter-societal integration through commitment and continuity of effort d. Enhancement of personal and collective ability to accommodate differences. e. Leaving use of corrective violence to lawful authorities only both in personal and collective lives. f. Adoption of environment-friendly attitudes, values, and policies Simply put the central idea of Integrationism is "to connect" humans with nature and with each other across ethnic, cultural, religious and geographical boundaries. This, it is argued, can bring some relief to us in moments of personal and collective panic attacks.
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