Dr. Sue Varma

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1,488 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 23 Jun

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unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver · Train Your Brain To Thrive Through Menopause · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

And in the hours afterwards, anyone that could go home that already had a discharge plan in place went home.

But we waited, we waited, and we waited, and no one came.

And it was so devastating, so devastating, because people there that day had family members who were working in the World Trade Center, colleagues.

You couldn't get through to anybody.

Cell phone lines were crossed.

So in the days after, myself, friends, my now husband, boyfriend at the time, we all volunteered in whatever capacity we could.

Some of us went to the morgue.

Some of us went downtown.

Some of us got trauma training, which is what I did.

I knew I wanted to go into psychiatry.

And so when I'm becoming the medical director, it wasn't at that moment.

It was years later after finishing my psychiatry training.

And I got recruited for this program.

And I was like, wow, there are other bigger world experts who have training.

And they were like, no, you're the person we want for this position.

And it was a very humbling experience because I'm a New Yorker, born and raised.

Like, I very much feel connected to what happened.

But it didn't matter where you lived at the moment.

I think, you know, no matter what part of the country you were, we saw with 9-11 that when it comes to trauma, simply being exposed to images on TV, right, like that stress, it is contagious.

There's something to be said about that.

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