PTSD? from 
and covid?
free advice from a psychiatrist.
the years of pandemic and lockdown are still working on us powerfully from the inside. But we're not really acknowledging or metabolizing this.
living with the echoes of those years, but we've forgotten what made the sound.
recorded in the dark middle of pandemic. But offering it up again now because it helps make sense
of still unfolding epidemic distress as individuals, as communities, as a species.
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/on-being-with-krista-tippett/id150892556
@holon42 I no longer have trauma triggers over covid. As a epidemiology hobbies, I knew what protocols should have been followed and that did cause me great trauma. So bad that the air around was heavy and menaving during that first big spike in Detroit
(And subsequent fuckery, not providing a federal response, pitting states againstceach other for supplies. etc, etc, etc.
I suspect the reason is (less due to me processing it) it and more to do with the personal/family dangers in real life.
i'm glad you're not having anxiety about it anymore. i'm just masking.
and avoiding crowds, as usual for an introvert🤭
the worse trauma is from and ilk, which danger is still present.
although with Harris/Walz on the job now, that has lessened but not disappeared.
"Quite right. Trump grudgingly exited the White House in January 2021, but in the months and years that followed, he not only retook control of his political party, he also remained a dominant voice in the American discourse, en route to cruising through GOP primaries and caucuses, becoming his party’s presidential nominee for the third consecutive cycle."
@holon42 I should say I RARELY go out to places. Dispensary, pharmacy, not much else. I do not mask when I go out because I go when there are no crowds.
My husband does the grocery shopping as he is the cook of the house
I protected my 89 yo mom through covid by being ultra cautious. Last November we had a family crisis and it was madness in my house - and our son had it and gave to all. Including mom! But we all came through w/a nasty cold pandemic extreme fatigue.
@ucantstop_me
just posted:
"Only in policy-absolutist terms, where a political era is defined by a president’s official acts alone, have we not been stuck in the Trump era the whole way through.
Nine years running. And what majorities of Americans keep saying, election after election, is that Trump’s America is an unpleasant place to spend time."