Article from NY Times June 15, 2020

Credit...Monika Aichele

• June 15, 2020

·  ·  This article is the first in a series on resilience in troubled times — what we can learn about it from history and personal experiences.

Two years ago, my notions of resilience, how it works and what it means, were remade.

I’d been struggling with the mental-health fallout from a series of car accidents — when I drove, I experienced sporadic flashbacks, feelings of panic and persistent visions of my own seemingly certain doom. I felt certain that I would crash again, and that this time I would die. Sometimes on the highway I had to pull over to hyperventilate and so...