Originally Posted by
ppetresen
Good luck to you and everyone there. I went through the 2017 Wildfires here in British Columbia and spent 2 months evacuation (1 forced, 1 just good sense). I work in mental health and even today around 30% of the people I see can trace whatever it is they're dealing with back to the fires -- some of which seem totally unrelated, like a car accident or how losing their dog a year later seems to affect them disproportionately. In my experience, the people who did best were the ones who could turn the tragedy into a way to come together. Reading over this thread, it seems that exactly that is one of the things happening here! Good luck.