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Tim Mak
Tim Mak
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Find out more about the anniversary effect and why, for many #Ukrainians, time doesn’t move forward when February returns through the link! https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/the-anniversary-effect-ukrainians

The ‘anniversary effect’: Ukrainians live by a trauma calendar

As Feb. 24 approaches, Ukrainians feel it on a physical level—with the sudden onset of insomnia, anxiety, and appetite loss. They’re dealing with a phenomenon that pops up near the war anniversary.
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Natalia wakes up in the middle of the night to check the time. The screen shows the year 2014.
#war

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She blinks, and the digits slowly return to normal. Outside, it is February 2026. But she is living by a calendar that lags twelve years behind.

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“I turn into a function, into a robot. My brain doesn’t care what year it is now — for my brain, these [February] days are simply 2014,”said Natalia Kolosovska, who has been suffering the ‘anniversary effect’ for more than a decade аfter #Russia invaded #Ukraine for the first time.

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Natalia lives through something each February that most #Ukrainians first encountered four years ago, when #Russia launched its full-scale invasion of the country — the annual reaction to the anniversary of a traumatic event.

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At the end of winter, #Ukrainians often notice unexplained apathy, fatigue, exhaustion, #insomnia, or a loss of appetite.

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Find out more about the anniversary effect and why, for many #Ukrainians, time doesn’t move forward when February returns through the link! https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/the-anniversary-effect-ukrainians

The ‘anniversary effect’: Ukrainians live by a trauma calendar

As Feb. 24 approaches, Ukrainians feel it on a physical level—with the sudden onset of insomnia, anxiety, and appetite loss. They’re dealing with a phenomenon that pops up near the war anniversary.
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Find out more about the anniversary effect and why, for many #Ukrainians, time doesn’t move forward when February returns through the link! https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/the-anniversary-effect-ukrainians

The ‘anniversary effect’: Ukrainians live by a trauma calendar

As Feb. 24 approaches, Ukrainians feel it on a physical level—with the sudden onset of insomnia, anxiety, and appetite loss. They’re dealing with a phenomenon that pops up near the war anniversary.
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