The psychological part of it will go away after about a month. It's fairly easy to give up what you had once you realize that you are to darn busy to ponder on it all. Personally I use to think at first about all that I had given up. However after the first month I realized I was to busy preparing for the garden, canning, and cleaning up the property so we could build on to even think about what I had lost. Then you have carrying water, boiling water, canning, dehydrating foods. Cutting wood for the winter months, planting crops, taking care of the farm animals. You want have time left at the end of the day to worry.

Sure many will die, will parish from the heat, or the cold, and having no water, but if you learn how to do things before it all happens you will be ready for most anything. However someone will have to dispose of all the bodies, People need to prepare their minds for that before something does happen.

Never give up. Life is worth living no matter what. I lived through 3 major heart attacks, I even died and was brought back. All I could think of is that I need to live because my family needed me. Someone out there needs us, and that is enough for all of us to want to live and not give up.

What I do recommend for people to have is a gas stove. You can always cook and can on it, even with no power and you can get a peculator and make coffee. A wood stove takes forever to cook on. I found that out the hard way.