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Building Your Emergency Mind
Advice on Returning to Center After an Emergency
How to recover from and start to process being the caregiver in a crisis.
4 min readMar 1, 2020
The Question
“How can people working in a crisis situation — for instance in an emergency department — come down from the adrenaline that can last after the situation has passed? I was briefly a volunteer community liaison officer for my local fire brigade when a bushfire was at a great risk of impacting my community — I really enjoyed the two days I was in this role and it reaffirmed my desire to work in crisis situations — however, particularly after the first day I found it hard to come down from that adrenaline that night after finishing. It was a weird shift returning to normality after an intense situation. Any insight?” — From CMD, Australia
