It'll take a while
When I was 19, I was on a bus going to Ottawa which had a head on collision at 100km/h with a Pinto (!) on Hwy 7 outside of Ottawa. The two people in the front seat were killed instantly, but the child in the back seat was still alive. I helped the paramedics and FD take the car apart (along with a few other people from the bus) and got a close up look at the two people in the front seat (the Mom and Dad, literally smashed flat... I won't go into the details but they're nasty as I'm sure you know) as well as how very badly injured the 3yo in the back seat was; internal bleeding, punctured lungs, and legs very badly broken at the least from what I saw. The only reason he didn't die was because the baby seat he was in kept the car he was in from accordianing in around him and crushing him too.
AFAIK, he survived, though I'm sure he went through years of physio.
It took me nearly a year before I didn't have any more wierdnesses from seeing and participating in that. OTOH, I was able to get back to the swing of things almost right away. Remember that you did what you had to do and what you could do; no more can be demanded nor expected.
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