Deepanshu (wearing yellow shirt) and his family in Makkumath in Uttarakhand.
For more than two months now, 15-year-old Deepanshu has had trouble sleeping at night. The images of devastation he witnessed first-hand in Rambada in Uttarakhand during the flash floods in June keep haunting him.
And the loss of his 18-year-old brother Himanshu, who is feared dead, has only made it more traumatic.
"Sometimes I see people running around me, sometimes I feel I'm left behind in the jungle while others have walked ahead and I'm unable to catch up. I see lots of waters all around me," Deepanshu says in his village in Makkumath.
His father Mahipal Lal says the nightmares have become less intense over the last two months. "Every time he wakes up, we try to reassure him that he is alright. We also took him to a doctor who has now given him some medicines," says Mr Lal.
Deepanshu's trauma is shared by many across the Kedar valley who have lost their bread winners and young children in the tragedy.
With 225 children missing in Rudraprayag district alone, and 337 women who have been widowed in Ukhimath tehsil, the scale of loss is massive.
For many, loss of their loved ones has made it a complicated grief to deal with. Many are already showing signs of post-traumatic stress disorder.
"I get scared. I ask all my family to come and stand in front of me. I don't sleep at night. I always keep a bag ready for the rains. When it rains, I run out of my house with my bag and torch. I only return home when someone reassures me that all is OK," says Harish, a Class X student and survivor of the disaster.
While Harish is more vocal about his anxieties, there are others like Savita, who lost her husband and two children, and has hardly uttered a word since the day of their last rites.
The psychological effect of the tragedy on the residents prompted the government to send in a team of mental health experts who have now trained local doctors to ensure coping strategies to deal with the long term impact of the disaster.
"This is a small remote area, where the community is close knit. The sense of tragedy is immense and its multiplied due to the human loss and additional burden of loss of livelihood," said Dilip Jawalkar, District Magistrate, Rudraprayag.
Clinical Psychologist Dr Etishree Bhati agrees. "Both short and long term strategies are needed. People must feel that there is someone to listen to their problems and help them. These small steps go a long way in restoring self-confidence."
But in the aftermath of their personal tragedies, it will be a long time before the invisible emotional and mental scars are on the mend.