in many wartorn countries such as bosnia cambodia and rwanda women continued to experience high levels of stress and anxiety in their daily lives and display typical signs of trauma including depression listlessness chronic fatigue anguish psychological disabilities and recurrent recollections of traumatic incidents despite severe emotional trauma these women demonstrated remarkable resilience and courage in surviving their sufferings often remained unvoiced however and were sometimes expressed through abusive relationships with their spouses or children most of these women continued undertaking their normal responsibilities and this clinging to routine work may have helped them to cope with the trauma interestingly in postsoviet georgia internally displaced women appeared to adjust better than their male counterparts although men became passive and moody women took outside work to feed their families