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When disaster bureaucracy creates secondary trauma

I work disaster recovery and I have been helping the same families for eighteen months after the flood but FEMA deadlines are expiring and insurance companies are closing files and I watch people who survived the disaster get destroyed by the bureaucracy afterward.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You watch the very system meant to help disaster survivors grind them down instead.

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