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Why water trauma lingers after the crisis ends

The disaster gave us contaminated water for weeks and even though it is fixed now I still smell that smell everywhere and I cannot trust that anything is actually clean.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Acute threats to basic survival can leave lasting hypervigilance that continues to protect and torment us long after the danger passes.

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