January 24, 2011
Blurb
....Survivor’s guilt is intensely complicated and personal. Randy Gardner, who was shot in the foot that morning, wonders if he could have done more, somehow, rather than running to protect himself. Ronald Barber, who leads Ms. Giffords’s district office, has asked himself countless times why he survived while two of his friends, standing on either side of him, did not. Dr. Jeffrey A. Lieberman, professor and the chairman of psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center, said that this sort of traumatic experience inevitably changes people, creating “soul-searching moments.” “None of the people that were there will ever be the same,” Dr. Lieberman said. “The question is how they will handle this. Will they grow and use this as a positive psychological adaptation? Or will it gnaw at them and be a memory that gives them emotional distress?” read the article at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/us/23survivors.html?scp=1&sq=jeffrey%2...