Columbine Survivors Are Parents Now and Scared for Their Own Children

[DonViejo]

It’s been 19 years and the psychological wounds still aren’t healed.

CAROL MCKINLEY
02.18.18 9:01 PM ET

LITTLETON, Colorado—The day Amy Over kissed her daughter Brianna goodbye on the junior kindergarten steps, she was expecting to feel joy. Instead, her heart was beating so fast, she thought she was going to die.

“The walls were closing in. It was so isolating. I turned red and got hives,” Over said. Later, in the emergency room, she found out that she wasn’t dying.

“Have you ever had a panic attack?” the ER doctors asked her.

“I didn’t put two and two together,” Over said, realizing that leaving her daughter in class had triggered the most horrific day of her life: April 20, 1999.

Columbine.

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[MontanaMama]

1. We're reaping what we've sown.

Horrendous.

[lunasun]

2. But I was assured @DU that kids are resilient and mass shootings don't affect them for long

[Cha]

4. omg.. what bullshite

[Ms. Toad]

5. Link, please.

I find it hard to believe that anyone, let alone anyone on DU, made such an absurd comment.

[oberliner]

6. Who assured you of that?

[Cha]

3. So sad.. you do get panic attacks and PTSD

after you've been through something so traumatic.

I was in New York when we saw that happened.. it was all the more shocking, having grown up in Denver, and knowing about Littleton my whole life.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. heritage

Just the other day while Over was braiding Brianna’s hair, Brianna started crying.

“She said, ‘Mom, I’m scared to go to school,’” Over said. “She hears stuff. I had to tell her the truth: that I hope a shooting doesn’t happen to her. I tell her the chances are slim. I teach her to be aware of her surroundings.”

We have to do better. We just have to.