Before the “lockdowns” of 2020 started in your area, were you actively following the news about the coronavirus and bracing for something to come? #covid19
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Do you feel like you have anxiety or PTSD that was brought on or exacerbated by the COVID 19 pandemic
@AskTheDevil thanks for sharing this POV. I also had some anxiety prior to Covid. I had only seen my therapist a handful of times in the office before Covid made us go virtual. Working in healthcare, of course I’m in the exacerbated camp.
But now that you bring it up, I think my sister would feel some affinity with your comments. It normalized remote work, something that was very hard and stigmatized for her as an agoraphobic.
@MotherDucker I mean, I'd rather there NOT be COVID, and people continue to annoy me by standing too close, but it did certainly drive home for many people that maybe they _shouldn't_ be spending that much of their lives in an office or traveling to and from one.
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I actually laughed when I read this. I’m still afraid to go to movie theater, FFS. It sucks.
@TomeReader it does suck. But you’re not alone. 🫶🏻
I wouldn't say covid specifically brought on anxiety, but literally everything else during that time, between covid, the election, everything leading up to & the day of Jan 6th, losing rights, seeing LGBTQ+ be vilified, having traitors making laws & a traitor ex-president calling the House shots, the trials keep getting pushed back, state approved murders of blacks & immigrants, children slaughtered, etc etc..
...it's all left me broken & physically/mentally exhausted.
@MotherDucker You didn't include a way for people to answer honestly if they don't fall into one of the categories.
I have anxiety and PTSD, but not from COVID, and if anything, dealing with less people removed some of my stressors.
Not that COVID did not stress me for other people, it just didn't further traumatize me. I've seen plagues before. Lots of them.