'It may not seem like a choice whether to run from bombs, but for some people, the idea of leaving home can be so anxiety-inducing that it leaves them in a death trap,' reports DavidVolodzko
Refugees wait for transfer to Poland outside the train station in Lviv, Ukraine. Photo: Kai Pfaffenbach/REUTERS When the Russian attack on Kharkiv began around dawn on February 24, Irina Victor opened a window in her fifth-floor apartment, leaned out, and listened. What she heard in the distance was a faint thud-thud like the beat of drums. It was almost soothing. Then she looked down and saw people crowding outside shops to buy water, bread, and medicine.
“When the bomb hit our home,” Victor says, “Mom and Elya wanted to go. And I didn’t.” By now, she was paralyzed by panic attacks and resigned to what seemed inevitable. “For me, it’s more beautiful to die in your own home,” she says, but “I couldn’t do that to my mother or Elya.” She asked a friend to find her professional help.
It may not seem like a choice whether to run from bombs, but for some people, the idea of leaving home can be so anxiety-inducing that it leaves them in a death trap. For them, Stanislavivna says, “there is a great fear of the unknown” that can outweigh the fear of death itself. Her method involves forming a positive motivation by focusing patients’ attention away from themselves and their own safety and onto loved ones and the need to get them out of danger.
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