Her religious practice provided both routine and meaning.

Her hunting and shelter maintenance provided purposeful activity and the sense of agency that comes from doing something to keep yourself alive rather than simply waiting.

This is not to suggest that what she experienced was not profoundly traumatic.

The deaths of three people — her companion, her child, her nurse — in circumstances she could not prevent, while she herself survived, is a form of survivor’s guilt and grief that would have been devastating under any circumstances.

The isolation that followed was not simply inconvenient; it was a form of deprivation that affects human beings at a fundamental psychological level.