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SURVIVING FAMILY MEMBERS © 2014 Frederick J. Cowie, Ph.D.*
Surviving family members, whether of disasters, tragic accidents, or diseases, are, unsurprisingly, raw with sadness, anger, and disbelief. And although surviving‐family management is a special area of incident and emergency management, this article is not about the view from the top, but the view from the bottom, from the perspective of we survivors. Stress is the key element in the behavior of survivors, and stress
management principles are the key elements in coming to thrive after
the death of a loved one. No one as a survivor can hope to employ all
of these strategies, but if one knows they exist, one has more hope of
thriving, while surviving. Remember grieving is natural, personal, and
intense, but it can be done better or worse.
Deep Breathing: Deep, conscious, purposeful breathing, with the desire to regulate blood pressure, heart rate, and
diminish irregular breathing is the key to stabilizing behavior and initiating deliberate decision making. Deep breathing
is indispensable. Staying Home: While one might want to be at the scene, that is not a good idea. Survivors feel that proximity is
important, but it is not. In fact, proximity aggravates your strained, tensed behavior and brings with it its own
destabilizing circumstances. Surviving‐family proximity also inhibits incident management. Proximity is not a good idea
from any perspective.
Keep with Routine: Routine stabilizes and ritual normalizes. Nothing you do that is
erratic, over‐emotional, or reactive, will ever make anything any better. Stay with
family, friends, coworkers. If you can, go to school, go to work, go to church. Making
yourself miserable and crazy will not help you, your family, the incident, or
life. Work is the best therapy, intensified waiting is the worst. Get a Representative: If you want to impact the incident, use a trained, qualified
professional. Someone who knows the emergency management and incident
management business, who can interact with the response complex professionally,
not emotionally. It’s like getting a lawyer for court. Otherwise you have a fool for a
representative or client. When it is time, and only if you want, go to the scene: When they have found your loved one or the recovery phase is
over, and you have made whatever arrangements were appropriate, you can go to the scene, if you find that personally
necessary, many people don’t. Nothing you do will mean you cared for or didn’t care for your loved one. Don’t worry
about what other people might think. Someone will always criticize. Just do what feels right.
Surviving Family Members (cont.)
More could be said, but if you stay within the meat of the above bell‐curve of activities, if you keep within one standard deviation from stability, you’ll do fine.
But if you are out on the edges, either screaming or shut down totally, things will not bode well for your thriving and helping others to thrive.
*I have been involved in planning, hazmat safety, and emergency
management since 1985; have survived the long‐term disease and
death of my son; and have worked as a mentor and stress manager
for several decades.
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