How will we recover from this?
Today marks one week since one of the worst tragedies my country has ever suffered. Sometimes I still think we're living a nightmare. These days have been anything but normal. Everything feels wrong, everything feels sad. Anxiety and nerves have dragged us down, and the exhaustion is reflected in our physical state as well. Many of us haven't slept at all, very few hours really. I'm incredibly tired all day, but it's impossible to fall asleep, and the few times I do, I have nightmares. It's not easy for anyone, even those of us fortunate enough to have our families intact don't feel well. There's an enormous emptiness, a collective sadness, a life that feels different, looks different, sounds different.
The psychological damage after an earthquake is killing me. You're always dizzy, you feel like everything is shaking, survival mode is always on, any noise can give you the worst scare of your life, the slightest noises have made me fear for my life, you can't sleep or bathe peacefully without thinking that at any moment it could shake, and that's how we've been living recently… It's psychologically exhausting, too much for my brain.
They recommend not watching the news so often for mental health reasons, since this week we've consumed more social media than ever, but I can't help it. Sometimes we see good news, rescues of people or animals that fill us with hope. It's been very difficult, but there are people who have been very resilient and have survived to this day. I truly admire all those survivors, and I wish they had worked better from the very beginning; many more lives could have been saved. But this country is governed by inept people… How long will this misfortune continue?.
I am grateful to have my family safe, grateful to have a home, grateful to be able to breathe, even though every breath aches in my heart. I wish that every family could find a reason to go on without their loved one, and I wish that the tragedies in my country would end. This has truly been one of the worst things that has ever happened to us. We need a break, we need freedom, and we need change.
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