Chris Reardon

Chris Reardon

@scoop_reardon - 24/05/2019

?“You know, there is post-traumatic growth. I think I grew ?????, I grew more ??????, I grew much more aware of my own limitations and probably to a healthy degree, much more ??????.”

Chris Reardon

@scoop_reardon - 24/05/2019

?“The most durable symptom was this inability to speak in public, because every time I wanted to, I would be assailed by memories… And that took literally 22 years or 20 years of work – of ???????, of all sorts of things – to overcome.”

Chris Reardon

@scoop_reardon - 24/05/2019

?“I could not cross the street without feeling intense danger. I had constant intrusive thoughts related to injury and death. I had ????? ??????? for apparently no reason, at every moment and I sort of went to bits.”

Chris Reardon

@scoop_reardon - 24/05/2019

? “I began to feel an incredible sense of guilt, at having put so many others’ lives at risk for my mission. And those feelings of guilt, and vulnerability, you know, were to grow worse with time.”—@HochschildF

Chris Reardon

@scoop_reardon - 24/05/2019

?On the night he spent under attack in Bosnia: “Every minute we heard the shells going into #Gorazde… I spent half the night praying that I would stay alive and the other half praying that I would suffer a quick death.”—@HochschildF

Chris Reardon

@scoop_reardon - 24/05/2019

?On his work in #Sarajevo: “There was not a day without an incident, there was not a day without deaths being seen, without injured being seen, without narrow misses to our own team. And …these stories were shared, but there was no discussion about the emotions.”—@HochschildF

Chris Reardon

@scoop_reardon - 24/05/2019

?This is one of the bravest interviews I’ve ever heard. The @UN’s @HochschildF opens up about his struggles with #mentalhealth after years as a front-line humanitarian worker. ▶️Listen on #AwakeAtNight with @melissarfleming via @refugees https://t.co/Hk4QSiLbHp

Chris Reardon

@scoop_reardon - 16/05/2019

"We can avoid a climate and ecological breakdown. But the opportunity to do so will not last for long. We have to start today.” —@GretaThunberg https://t.co/4PeVtkbdWn

Chris Reardon

@scoop_reardon - 16/05/2019

??????????, the Elton John biopic, premieres tonight at @Festival_Cannes. Here in Amman, I'm watching the song's official video from 2017 over and over—marveling at how Iranian refugee artist @Majidad7 shows the loneliness in a whole new context. https://t.co/8xS9Av1MdP

Chris Reardon

@scoop_reardon - 11/05/2019

This boy in Syria loves his birds. ▶️Watch them soar over the broken cityscape in Homs, then read his family’s story: https://t.co/xFcRp37K3J via @Refugees https://t.co/RzOp5LLliu