Do not disappear after the exciting rescue if the quiet cleanup still needs hands.

Crises attract help because they are legible and finite, and because helping in one feels like something. The long tail afterwards attracts far less: the paperwork, the phone calls, the slow rebuilding of an ordinary week. That is where the real weight sits, and the person left holding it is usually the one who was in trouble to begin with.

If you helped somebody through an emergency recently, check in now that the drama has passed. Ask about the boring remainder and take one piece of it, since that is where your help will still be felt.