Creative Resilience
How does one deal with a serious illness at the heart of a family? In this story our loved one was 22, just out of college, the news was a shock to all. This story is a personal account of the various roads taken to find resilience.
In an age in which terrorism, natural disasters, illnesses, shootings, and wide-scale industrial errors and accidents are occurring with increasing frequency, there is a tremendous need to develop ways to cope with the aftershocks. Post-traumatic illnesses are on the rise, and we need to find new ways to curtail and prevent their rise. Building resilience has become an important topic. In this story, I tried to illustrate the ways our family dealt with a personal tragedy. Cont
Originally published at getwell.org on November 18, 2015.
