“I have marked that a lot of people don’t understand that it is crucial to cling to the usual routines that you had before to keep a link with reality. Before the full-scale war, I had a daily routine in the morning such as going to the shower, doing makeup, and having a coffee. I have continued that even when the shellings started, and I was just staying at home and had no need to go somewhere. I even didn’t have an idea why I do this. I was joking that continuing to do so is needed for my corpse to be good-looking and with nice makeup when the house would have collapsed after the attack.
But one of our psychologists at work then explained my brain needed to have a link with the life I had before, and it is an important thing to do. But it is still really frightening when the shelling starts, and you are naked in the shower… We, with my friends, still consider that one of the biggest fears is to meet a rocket while we are in the shower.”
Volunteer, Ukraine
