Reply #31: Pretty much [View All]

[sandnsea]

I imagine everybody is different. The two most notables for me was the inability to buy anything new or collect momentos. I'm finally over that one, after ten years. The other is the fear of fire, which only comes on me when I leave home for a long period of time. It's fleeting, a thought that I just accept as part of myself now, "hope the house didn't burn down", I don't even fight it anymore. Otherwise, it only took a year or so to be relatively normal, although people want you to be "okay" within a few months. I can't even imagine what some of these people are feeling because they not only lost their homes, but many almost lost their lives and did lose loved ones, and saw who knows what as well. Tragic. Many will need a lot of support for a long time to come.