Two acts of mass violence in Toronto in the space of just a few months is likely to bring on a variety of feelings among those affected — people who witnessed the events, the first responders who provided care for victims and even those of us who simply saw news coverage of the horrible incidents.
Faced with a sense of overwhelming and unexpected danger in a setting previously believed to be safe, survivors and witnesses to a trauma may react in an uncharacteristically overprotective manner.
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