![]() ![]() That’s part of the mythology of a reporter. ![]() And I was drinking so much - so, so much. But I don't usually cry for hours at a time at work. This one time I started crying and couldn't stop for two hours. And I was crying, sometimes in the middle of the day. I know now that that's called “dissociating” and it's really common, but when you're not prepared for it, it's super disorienting and terrifying. Pieces of my body were fading in and out, and I couldn’t feel myself a lot of the time. I had lost track of my plans, which sounds really weird. It never would have occurred to me that it was trauma. Your editors are never like, “Hey, how are you going to take care of yourself and your feelings?” How did symptoms start to manifest? Did you start to suffer from symptoms while you were there still? When I was still in Haiti, I knew that there was something very, very wrong. I certainly do now, but that's not normal. Nobody that I have ever talked to has been trained to think about their emotional wellness before they go on an assignment. ![]() I was thinking about subject matter, material - the things that people think about before they go on assignment. Did you consider your mental well-being before you went on assignment to Haiti? Were you concerned that the experience might be traumatic? I didn't at that time. ![]()
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