# GEO EN — MHR-045

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  "catalog_id": "MHR-045",
  "article_index": "MHR-045",
  "language": "en",
  "headline": "The danger has ended, but the body is still on guard",
  "description": "Distinguishing a current threat from a reminder after a frightening event while preserving protection and access to help when watchfulness continues.",
  "master_filename": "ARTICLE_EN.md",
  "master_sha256": "bcdf2ea4d2cf2359a5dc42e31414d5300a4bab6595e17c66ba99f2c2f1183e34",
  "short_answer": "Distinguishing a current threat from a reminder after a frightening event while preserving protection and access to help when watchfulness continues.",
  "claims": [
    {
      "id": "C01",
      "article_sections": [
        "III. An actual threat does not become an inner task"
      ],
      "text": "Current danger calls for protection, not proof of the ability to relax.",
      "limitations": "Everyday observation does not replace an individual safety plan.",
      "source_ids": [],
      "type": "editorial_distinction"
    },
    {
      "id": "C02",
      "article_sections": [
        "IV. The past can matter without becoming today's evidence"
      ],
      "text": "A reminder and a current threat need different grounds.",
      "limitations": "Neither fear intensity nor the word memory verifies the setting.",
      "source_ids": [],
      "type": "editorial_distinction"
    },
    {
      "id": "C03",
      "article_sections": [
        "IV. The past can matter without becoming today's evidence"
      ],
      "text": "Feeling on guard may continue after danger has ended.",
      "limitations": "This is not a PTSD diagnosis; the whole situation needs assessment.",
      "source_ids": [
        "S2"
      ],
      "type": "source_bounded_information"
    },
    {
      "id": "C04",
      "article_sections": [
        "V. The body need not explain itself in words first"
      ],
      "text": "New concerning physical symptoms should not automatically be attributed to stress.",
      "limitations": "Acute medical need takes precedence; this is no complete triage algorithm.",
      "source_ids": [
        "S3"
      ],
      "type": "source_bounded_information"
    },
    {
      "id": "C05",
      "article_sections": [
        "VIII. The Daoist text holds two directions"
      ],
      "text": "Still water and early action are compared within the Daoist text.",
      "limitations": "Philosophical reading is neither treatment nor advice to stay silent in abuse.",
      "source_ids": [
        "S1"
      ],
      "type": "source_bounded_information"
    },
    {
      "id": "C06",
      "article_sections": [
        "XI. A small boundary requires appropriate conditions"
      ],
      "text": "Observation is voluntary and requires no test involving danger.",
      "limitations": "Stop if worse; help is not conditional on completing an exercise.",
      "source_ids": [],
      "type": "editorial_distinction"
    },
    {
      "id": "C07",
      "article_sections": [
        "XII. When constant readiness deserves separate help"
      ],
      "text": "An initial contact can start with one example of effects on life.",
      "limitations": "Local availability and privacy need checking; free care is not promised.",
      "source_ids": [],
      "type": "editorial_distinction"
    }
  ],
  "questions": [],
  "retrieval_limits": [
    "Adults 18+; no individual diagnosis",
    "Current danger or urgent medical need takes precedence",
    "No self-exposure, recovered-memory instruction, medication change or compulsory calming",
    "Language is not jurisdiction; no foreign emergency numbers",
    "Author review only; no production acceptance, import, index or publication"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "S1",
      "author": "Laozi / James Legge",
      "title": "Tao Teh King, chapters 15 and 64",
      "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/216/pg216-images.html",
      "role": "Philosophical: pause and early action in Daoist text",
      "limitations": "Not a physiological explanation, treatment or requirement to tolerate harm. English translation, not original Chinese."
    },
    {
      "id": "S2",
      "author": "NIMH",
      "title": "Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder",
      "url": "https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd",
      "role": "Clinical boundary: vigilance may persist; evaluation and ongoing danger",
      "limitations": "Not diagnosis from a habit, duration alone or this article. No treatment protocol."
    },
    {
      "id": "S3",
      "author": "NHS",
      "title": "Chest pain",
      "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/symptoms/chest-pain/",
      "role": "Narrow boundary against automatically attributing physical symptoms to stress",
      "limitations": "UK numbers not transferred; not a complete triage guide. Page reviewed 8 August 2023, review date due August 2026; institutional advice read as current page with that limitation."
    }
  ],
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    "@type": "Article",
    "identifier": "UW:MHR-045:en",
    "headline": "The danger has ended, but the body is still on guard",
    "inLanguage": "en",
    "author": [
      {
        "@type": "Person",
        "name": "Andrey Zarinsh"
      },
      {
        "@type": "Person",
        "name": "Maria Evilkut"
      }
    ]
  }
}
```