what i am feeling now- post 9/11

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what i am feeling now- post 9/11

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5/18/2006 10:58 am

i did a lot of work after 9/11 to get thru my feelings. i could not drive by the airport, could not look at a plane in the sky- i was sure it was going to crash into a building. i could not imagine getting on a plane which was a problem for me as i am a flight attendant, who had 25 years on the job in 2001. i went to therapy, joined a peer support group for flight attendants and was trained by our union to do critical incident debriefings for flight attendants. i read books on anxiety and listened to tapes. i prayed. i am doing a lot better now. i could not read the paper after 9/11, could not attend a big flight attendant memorial. i saved alll the ny daily newspapers so that i could read them one day. i felt it was my responsibility to at least read the papers to acknowledge what had happened. i was able to do this one year after 9/11. i also read the ny times book "portraits of 9/11" it has pictures and a smalll paragraph that tells about each person that perished on 9/11. i recently saw "united 93" and believe it or not i feel there is a need for these movies, as many passengers have forgotten what happened on several airplanes that day. they still give us a hard time about security procedures. i am back to flying full time and will celebrate 30 years flying this june 24, 2006. i feel it is my responsibility and duty to remember and honor all those who died that day, and those who are dying today because of lung and breathing problems brought on by 9/11. it is not a good idea to bury these feelings and they will come back to bite you and cripple you in your capacity to love and live life fully today. fly safe

Edited 6/9/2006 9:55 am ET by flygirl1976

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6/4/2006 1:47 pm

I saw you responded to a posting I made and I want to thank you for the support. I also want to support you for the courage you showed with your posting here. It is a benefit to have someone like you express the process we all must go through to heal. It is hard. It was, it is, and it always will be raw emotion when we talk about that day. Understanding that and living with it though - the raw emotion - is the challenge. And you do a good job. Reading your words has helped me. You show that it's hard to live open, with feelings. But that is what we must do. Otherwise we close down, and if we do that there's a price to pay - even though we may thnk there's not.