> After the Tsunami's a few years ago, I was working for the Red Cross. My
> little team would work our normal shift and then volunteer a bunch of
> hours after each shift. After a few weeks or maybe a month of this, our
> supervisors found out. We were told to go home because "we would pay in
> our own little way" after the crisis was over.
>
> I found this to be very true. (Placebo effect?)

> After my time there, I would have nightmares every night about how I
> needed to do this or do that in order to help these people out. I felt
> that I was in a state of shock, even though non of this happened to me.
> Where as during the crisis, I had all sorts of energy and didn't have any
> problems working the longer shifts.