Amy Robach

Survived that high school shooting.

But then just a few months ago took his own life.

Yeah.

I mean, this is just, it's unthinkably difficult.

I just, I'm imagining being a member of the Mediar family.

I don't know how you bear this much, but in December of last year, Mediar Bowen's 26-year-old brother, Joshua, died.

died by suicide.

They say that he basically just couldn't get over the depression.

Uh, they said that the trauma of that massacre that happened February 14th, I forgot it was on Valentine's day of 2018.

They say that the trauma from that massacre quote lingered long after graduation and profoundly altered the course of his life.

And so finally they say depression, guilt, emotional instability, and long periods of isolation replaced the vibrant young man we once knew.

We don't think about that.

We think about, oh, you survived the school shooting.

We think about, of course, the people, the students, the teachers who died in these school shootings.

But the people who survived live with survivor's guilt and terror and trauma.

You wouldn't trust anyone alive.

How comfortable would you ever feel again in a public space?

I mean, all of those things we don't really think about what so many people live with each and every day after experiencing something that has become, unfortunately, commonplace now in this country.

I'm just going back to look what year that shooting was.

We talked eight years ago.