Many survivors of the wildfire that consumed Lahaina are experiencing depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder even while still living in mass shelters filled with grim reminders of their escape.
Anne Landon walks along a beach, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023, in Kihei, Hawaii. The evacuation center at the South Maui Community Park Gymnasium is now Landons safe space. She has a cot and access to food, water, showers, books and even puzzles that bring people together to pass the evening hours. – The evacuation center at the South Maui Community Park Gymnasium is now Anne Landon’s safe space.
“I personally could hardly talk to people,” she said. “Even when I got internet connection and people reached out, I had trouble calling them back.” Dana Lucio, a licensed mental health counselor with the Oahu-based group Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaii, is among the experts working on Maui to help support survivors. She’s been going to different donation hubs around Lahaina on the western side of the island, and sometimes even door to door, to be present for people and give them a shoulder to cry on.
Global medical aid organization Direct Relief has been working with groups like Lucio’s to distribute medication to people who fled without their antidepressants and antipsychotic prescriptions, said its director of pharmacy and clinical affairs, Alycia Clark.
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