With the improved firefights and Iton’s fires, some residents are now returning to their neighborhoods to take off through the rubble. But thousands of victims whose homes, commercial or damaged business are burning now face a set of paper work after the shooting.
This may include mobility in confusing web gates, frustrated phone tree systems and other bureaucracy that links the soul. Some will have to submit insurance claims and may submit a detailed inventory to every object in their home. Others will have to register in Federal Emergency Management Agency And apply for housing assistance grants, while others may have to apply for loans to fill insurance gaps or Gofundment help. Amid all this accounting, there will be new real estate loans, rental agreements or other temporary housing papers.
This article is provided for free to maintain our society safely and support in the wake of destroyed fires in southern California.
If the victim of southern California fires is already vulnerable to paralysis of leaves – or is naturally bad to stay at the top of official forms – they are looking for an additional shock at the present time, he says Dr. Soatra TawarPsychologist and co -leader of Disaster Response Committee in Los Angeles Province. This fear can stand in the way of restoring their lives to the right path.
“You just lost everything, and now you have to fill these papers – so I have become exhausted and freezing,” says Touvar. “When people face what they feel huge tasks, they suffer from a great deal of excessive and cognitive pregnancy that can also lead to an educated impotence. They do not feel anything that they will do will change the situation. So they become paralyzed.”
“I just lost everything and now you have to fill these papers – so I became exhausted and freezed.”
-Dr. Soatra Tawjar, clinical psychologist and co -chair of the disaster response committee of the Los Angeles County Society
Tovar adds that the phenomenon can be exacerbated with firefighters with hyperactivity disorder and lack of attention.
“For a person with hyperactivity and attention shortage, this mixture can become,” she says. “You are thinking about everything at the same time. It becomes noise in the head and this leads to this type of paralysis.”
It says the difficulty in processing the papers is more prevalent than we might imagine Ethan CrossNeurologist and professor of psychology in Michigan University Who specializes in emotional organization.
“We are talking about the response of the accompanying fear and anxiety-it can lead to a fight or airline response to avoid it,” says Cross. “But for disaster survivors, it is a basic activity – you have to interact with it to survive.”
So where – and how – to start treating this hill, which apparently overcomes the leaves? Here are some tips for approaching the horrific task, while calming the central nervous system, so that you can move in the shock around the bureaucracy of disasters.
1. Do not be afraid to use external sources
If the task is very arduous – or you do not have time – consider employing a general officer to deal with the entire insurance claim for you, he says Amy BachExecutive Director of United document holdersThe Consumer Da`wah Group. They will take a set of your benefits-in general from 5 to 15 %-but for some, it’s worth it.
“They have become your agent,” says Bach. “It reduces the amount of the available insurance boxes, but if you get good [public adjuster]They are likely to get better payments than you will get, and it takes a burden from you to present paper works. It is extremely important to check the references, and negotiate its fees, because they come from all over the country and compete with each other. “
2. Start “Recovery Notes”
The list of clear comprehensive tasks should be your first step. Avoid writing down notes on paper scraps that may be lost, or put lists in multiple places. Instead: Look for a dedicated magazine or board and start recovery notes. Include the names of everyone you talk to, what they said and their contact information. Look for aesthetic note note or feel satisfied in your hand. It appears to be a surface details. But returning to an object every day, throughout the day, brings you small blows of joy. It adds up.
“That motivation may be enhanced for payment,” says Cross.
3. Divide tasks into small steps – and give priority
Now that the task menu started, divide it into very small tasks and focus on one at one time instead of trying to treat-or even treat-everything once. Giving priority to these tasks. Start with immediate needs first.
“It is safety first.” “Where are you now? Do you need to apply for temporary housing?
Add a selection box next to the tasks, as it seems, it says, “It can be emotional, satisfactory satisfactory, and this can make you continuous when you get tired.”
4. Get personal help
If you find it difficult to move on online resources, it is especially useful to receive information personally from someone who can help you start. He moved to one of the Fema disaster recovery centers in Los Angeles there is one in Ucla Research Park In 10850 Pico Blvd. , Inside the previous WestSide pavilion, and another in Community Education Center at the College of City in Pasadina In 3035 E. Foothill Blvd. In Pasadina. You will find stalls with more than 70 government agencies and assistance departments.
“Someone can sit with you and help you physically fill these leaves,” says Touvar. “They can help you make this list of tasks and set the priorities of how to work through it.”
5. A temporary appointment
Set temporarily for 10, 15 or 20 minutes and commit to working on one element in your task menu until the alarm is launched. You don’t have to finish the task. Just focus on it for that time period. Then take a short break.
“Then rinse and repeat.” “This can really help you when you are tense – and unlike people’s survival for a very long time – it helps reduce fatigue.”
The TVAR system describes productivity is sometimes called Pomodoro technology. This is useful Online Inspired by the aforementioned technology will automatically from your work at work and construction at rest periods.
6. Call your senses
Our senses are an emotional organization that is often ignored. But inviting individual senses while sitting to do paperwork – through, for example, putting sedative music or lighting the lavender candle – can calm our central nervous system and transform our emotions, if only temporary.
“The smell will not deny the size of what you are dealing with,” says Cross. “But small sources of emotional salvation may help people overcome a horrific storm. It is a phenomenon with nervous mediation. If anxiety prevents you from completing the task, reducing that emotional experience – temporarily replacing it with another emotional experience -.”
7. Bonus yourself
Premack principle is a motivational behavioral technique that depends on the reward system. If you find yourself staring at a task with dread, promise yourself a bonus to do so. It can be cakes. Or sit outside under the sun. Make sure to conceive before starting.
“This can really help move you,” says Touvar. “We keep incentive to do difficult things by providing ourselves with small rewards after completing the tasks.”
8. Practicing self -sympathy
Whether you find yourself with a lot of leaves or just a few of the small fire models, the events that preceded you are likely to be painful. It may take time to process on its own. Tovar says yourself is fine that it is okay to feel exhausted.
“Recovery is a process, a marathon, not the enemy race,” she said.