Julana Benaroon wrote:

>
> Since our evacuation, I have mostly been feeling a kind of creeping
> emotional numbness, which is probably a precursor to grief. I was
> distraught yesterday because we were having some friends over to
> celebrate the return of a new Hajji, and I realized that my best white
> damask linens had been lost in the blaze! I was momentarily overcome,
> but I managed to set my feelings aside until after the problem was
> solved, and then - as if from a distance - I put things into
> perspective. But this mechanical being who can set feelings aside isn't
> me! That isn't like me at all! Is it possible that I've been drugged?
>


Traumatic stress does strange things to people.

I hope that when the feelings do return they are not too much to
deal with.

gloria p