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None of us know how we will respond to an extreme situation. I've responded with calm efficiency, freezing, dissociation, and hysteria at different times in my life. The only consistency was the come down - shaking, anxiety, perseveration on what had happened, what I had done. Flashbacks. Nightmares.
Hunter responded with calm efficiency, but his trauma will be just as marked as everyone else in that immediate group. Possibly more so than many, because of his compartmentalisation of his immediate reactions to shield the others, and his choice to enter the crime scene, view the bodies closely and check them for vital signs. Nobody else but first responders came so close to the victims, and we know from things said to the press that seasoned LE and forensics folks found it an incredibly confronting scene to work because of the nature of the injuries and the violence. Hunter was essentially a kid, and the victims weren't strangers but his friends. That would mark anyone deeply.
MOO
If someone ever put up a fundraiser to help Hunter Johnson to pay for ongoing long term trauma therapy and support, I'd be grabbing my debit card before the link even finished loading.