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Survivors of Columbine shooting discuss struggles with PTSD, anxiety

Survivors of Columbine shooting discuss struggles with PTSD, anxiety

Survivors of Columbine shooting discuss struggles with PTSD, anxiety

When 12 students and one teacher were gunned down in a mass shooting at Columbine High School in 1999, the tragic event marked a turning point for America. Twenty five years later, some survivors recall how they have dealt with the physical and mental impact of PTSD, anxiety and depression. "It's a big part of my identity and who I am and not necessarily that day, but more who I've become," Heather Martin, a Columbine survivor, told ABC News Live.

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ABC News(LITTLETON, Colo.) When 12 students and one teacher were gunned down in a mass shooting at Columbine High School in 1999, the tragic event marked a turning point for America.Twenty five years later, some survivors recall how they have dealt with the physical and mental impact of PTSD, anxiety and depression."It s a big part of my identity and who I am and not necessarily that day, but more who I ve become," Heather Martin, a Columbine survivor, told ABC News Live. "And a large part of that is because of the aftermath overcoming."America endured school shootings before Columbine, but never one quite like the April 20, 1999, shooting."We didn t have any context for a school shooting, couldn t name a school shooting," teacher Kiki Leyba a survivor, said.According to an ABC News review of the Gun Violence Archive, a website that tracks all shootings in the United States, 415 people have been killed in school shootings since the Columbine attacks. As