Yahoo News: Post-Katrina stress still weighs on New Orleans

This scares me.

It scares me because I think one of the two people I know who went thru Katrina has this, or a form of it.

And they're too proud, intimidated or scared to get help.

Again, I feel helpless... I know I can't suggest that they get help, because it would signal to them that I think they're weak.

If they do decide they need help, they should stay where they're at, instead of trying to go back to New Orleans. And they should definitely get out of the situation they're in now, because I fear that will make what they're feeling worse. Certain people just don't, won't or refuse to understand how going thru Katrina has affected this person.

I don't understand it either, having not gone thru it... I can only imagine what seeing and experiencing that can do to someone who hasn't always had the best in life.

I've written other posts that I've chosen not to publish here about this same person and the effect of Katrina has had on them. I don't know how many Katrina survivors read MVL, I do know that the person I'm referring to here does not.

Of course, I could go on and on about how the government (President Bush & FEMA mainly) is still dragging their feet nearly six months later, but I won't. It'll just make me mad, then I'll have to replace the "F" word with "bleepin'" like I did in my post yesterday.

There is nothing more I can say at this juncture... I can only pray.



And that's all from where I sit.

--MorelaterZ--