Debra Annette Godfrey and Carol Myers talk with people about the emotional impact of their tornado experience while visiting with tornado victims in Red Bank. Rick, Alex and Donna Griffith suffered damage to their Ely Road home.
Debra Annette Godfrey places literature on mailboxes while visiting with people about the emotional impact of their tornado experience Saturday in Red Bank.Disaster coping
Six months after the floodwaters in Nashville and Middle Tennessee dried up last year, authorities tallied eight survivors who had committed suicide, 22 others who had attempted it and two more who had tried to kill someone else. All the violence was traced to the stress of the flooding and recovery from it, authorities concluded.Source: Tennessee Recovery Project
Debra Annette Godfrey and Carol Myers talk with people about the emotional impact of their tornado experience while visiting with tornado victims in Red Bank. Rick, Alex and Donna Griffith suffered damage to their Ely Road home.FOR HELP
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Carol Myers and Deb Godfrey are a traveling therapy team.
Every Saturday and Sunday for the past month they have driven through tornado-ravaged neighborhoods, knocking on doors. They’re looking for nerves that may be as frayed as the ripped shingles under the blue tarps that mark storm paths across Southeast Tennessee.
“Most people tell us they’re fine,” Myers said. “And they may be. Now. But they may have anxieties that they don’t even realize they have yet. We just want them to know there is something and someone they can call if and when they need help.”