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Tomorrow is the 10th anniversary of the Sandy Hook school shooting. I thought anniversaries were to celebrate happy moments but obviously I'm wrong. NUMB TO THIS takes readers into the life of a person who experiences PTSD thinking about the approach of the anniversary of the mass shooting on the campus of Umpqua Community College in 2015.
Author Kindra Neely uses her talent as an artist and storyteller to share her personal experience as a survivor of a mass shooting. She was on the UCC campus the day 8 students and a professor were shot and killed. Her feelings of panic return every time her phone news alerts report another mass shooting. Even years after the UCC shooting, Kindra suffers from panic attacks.
She chronicles how her feeling of pointlessness almost ended when she attempted suicide. Driven by pain and shame, she wasn't able to truly confide in anyone, leaving her feeling helpless and fearing more bad things would happen.
While attending art school, Kindra decided to use art as a way to confront her fears in hopes that she could better control her feelings. She knows she is not alone as there are more and more mass shooting survivors suffering from the same fear as she experiences. The anger that the shootings continue also drive her to try to make a difference for others facing these senseless tragedies.
This graphic novel needs to be read by everyone, especially politicians who need to step up the efforts to change gun laws so lives can be saved.
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