This time last year, two students and two teachers were fatally shot at Apalachee High School in Barrow County, with the event leaving behind a trail of injuries, tears and questions about how this could happen in a place so close to home.

Less addressed, however, is the feeling of anxiety across the state, which could have more lasting effects, with growing fears of another incident.

“I think we can normalize that this is scary,” Jody Baumstein told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Baumstein, a licensed psychotherapist with Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, knows that continuous anxiety about gun violence in schools affects children and adults alike. Unlike many unpleasant topics, she said, these emotions should be addressed and not stuffed down.

“We have a tendency to want to fix th

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