“When a community can pull together, and you can work with somebody else going through the same thing, it really can be helpful,” Paul Gionfriddo, CEO of Mental Health America, said.
She read the news, let herself process the sorrow, despair and grief, and then told herself that she would go to sleep — tomorrow she would wake up and continue her work to end the gun violence epidemic in the United States.
Farley said surviving a shooting can cause depression, stress, grief, anxiety, and PTSD, and that symptoms might not show up right away. “People need to give themselves permission to go through a recovery period, which can be full of ups and downs,” he said. “I wish we had a nice formula.” “I would turn on the news and I would sit there and cry and scream at the TV and then the following month, it would happen all over again,” she said.
Gionfriddo said that a 2014 Cochrane Review of published research showed engaging with peers can be “as valuable” a tool in healing from past traumatic events as seeing a professional. He recommends both.
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