Columbine, 9/11 survivors tell Orlando mental health providers Pulse grief will last [orlandosentinel.com]

Alicia Doktor 10/17/174:00 AM

Columbine survivor Heather Egeland-Martin said it took more than a decade for her to fully address the trauma she experienced during the mass shooting at her Colorado high school on April 20, 1999.

She wasn’t hurt in the shooting but said the psychological trauma festered and influenced her actions for years before she learned to “advocate” for herself.

“The idea that survivors are not worthy of feeling [trauma] kept me from getting help,” Egeland-Martin said. “Survivor’s guilt is a thing. It follows you for a very long time.”

[For more on this story by Caitlin Doornbos, go to http://www.orlandosentinel.com...-20171015-story.html]

Photo: On the Pulse shooting anniversary, from the staff photographers of the Orlando Sentinel, images from the various events across Central Florida. The nightclub shooting claimed 49 lives on June 12, 2016.

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