Natural disasters also “bring emotional losses, the population needs time to recover”

First, there is the shock of material losses, of the house, the car and others. Then, the emotional shock, of those who have to fight to rebuild what fell and survive. And with all this comes fear, anxiety, irritability, insomnia and tiredness. The hardest thing is to admit that storms bring reactions that need treatment. To DN, Dulce Pires, a psychologist specializing in crisis intervention, warns of such situations.