2024-02-24 09:00:00
Two years ago began Guerra on a large scale in Ukraine, and it is important to offer a vision from the inside. When the conflict broke out, the world focused its attention on this Eastern European country. However, over time, people tend to follow the news less if they are not directly involved in ongoing events.
Ukraine is facing one of the cruelest wars for hundreds of years and, in my experience, few people understand what war is like here.
It is one of the largest armed conflicts since World War II, with an active front line reaching 1500 km. For comparison, the length of Gaza is 41 km.
In the cities, the population lives constantly alert to aerial alarms and bombings that have intensified over time. Refugees, for their part, are building a new life in countries other than their own. Meanwhile, those on the front lines try to survive a very different reality, marked by death and constant danger.
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Life during war varies significantly for different segments of the population. The main problem is the prolongation of the conflictwhich has led people to adapt to a new way of life imposed by combat.
Two years after the War in Ukraine
After two years of living in an extreme situation, Ukrainians experience significant psychological changes. Adaptation to constant danger is a natural response of the human mind in search of stability, even in the midst of a war.
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The reactions to the massive bombings, which occur regularly every few days and cause numerous casualties, become less psychologically dramatic over time. The deaths of soldiers on the front line, while still tragic, are perceived more routinely within the conditions in which they live.
This process of psychological adaptation can be worrying, as it reflects how war can become normalized in people’s minds, which can have long-term effects on mental and emotional health of the population.
However, it also highlights the incredible ability of humans to find ways to adapt and survive in extreme circumstances. We have developed resilience and ways of living enjoying the little things even in war.
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For example, living in Kyiv, I go to work, I see my friends, I go to drink coffee and I even went to see opera a few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of seeing Madame Butterfly.
All that is after doing several trips to the front line for labor reasons, along with constant collaboration with military personnel. Life is divided in two. One was by diversifying the activities and deepening the levels of pain that I could tolerate, along with the empathy that one can have.
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Despite this, it is necessary to have a certain routine even living in danger zones; Our mind tends to create routines even in the most contradictory conditions. It does not mean that there are many things that continue to remind you of the fact that you are in the middle of a war: air alarms, little flags for the fallen soldiers in the center of the city, the curfew and the number of soldiers you see everywhere. .
Furthermore, people do not choose what happens to us, but we do choose what we do with it. Therefore, in the face of tragic events, we can remain motionless crying, or we can transform pain into the engine that drives us to move forward. It is a transformation of pain into something beautiful; That is precisely called resilience.
*Graduate in Psychology and professor of the Evaluation II Chair at the University of Belgrano. She works in trauma and war and in psychological first aid for military personnel in combat.
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