Brussels terror trial: Rather than heal, learn to ‘live with your trauma,’ says psychologist

(Brussels Times) For several weeks, the victims of the 22 March 2016 attacks came to lay a little of their burden of painful memories before the Brussels court of assizes.

On Wednesday, an army psychologist lifted a corner of the veil on the trauma experienced by those present on that fatal day in Zaventem and Maelbeek, as well as their loved ones.

“When the blasts sounded, I did nothing,” one survivor who was at the airport said. Sitting on a bench, “I continued to eat my toast,” she recalled. Since then, she has wanted to put an end to her suffering and the feeling of guilt that still haunts her by requesting euthanasia.

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