We asked six healthcare workers to tell their stories.
, told me that it's normal — and, in many cases, expected — for health professionals to experience one or both of these conditions at some point in their career. She explained that PTSD is caused by an experience that is"significantly traumatic to an individual that creates stress response, which induces a sense of fear of their own safety, or the safety of their loved ones or other people around them.
When the pandemic hit in March, all I could think about was how grateful I was to not work in a hospital anymore . I won't pretend to know what the people working in the thick of it are experiencing, but I can say with certainty that if it were me, it would have affected me for years after. It might have broken me.
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