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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I've been thinking of your friend and their family. I hope they have been able to start to build a support network around them to help with all family members' physical and emotional needs through this trauma.

May I share something from my experience + the benefit of time? When this happened in my family, it was initially addressed as my sibling's trauma and we (Mom, Dad, me) were the most impacted by-standers.

Even healing was initially structured around "fixing" her, and trying to "get back to normal." That recovery structure didn't help all 4 of us fully and authentically heal. It wasn't until my family could recognize that this was a family trauma that impacted all of us, and we all had roles in recovery, for ourselves and as a unit. It isn't easy, and it took us many years to reach this stage of enlightenment, and have all family members aligned. I do wonder sometimes how much would have changed, if we'd been able to take this approach from the beginning. I feel like we could have bypassed so much hurt. Surviving--->Thriving

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Thank you for thinking of them. They are still in crisis mode I think. The son got a bed finally, but in PA. They are getting help from a church with temporary housing 90 min away from him until he is stable enough for release. We will try to support them when they return, but the pandemic really makes everything harder. “Normal” must seem so unattainable.[/quote]

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