COVID PTSD

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If she has PTSD from such a minor imposition as to wear masks and socially distance, then I would consider whether she has a pre-existing mental health disorder. It's not possible for a healthy person to have PTSD just from that; bad memories, certainly, but not clinically significant trauma.

We are a neurodivergent family with a lot of triggers for anxiety, but for us it's the opposite. We were relieved to isolate and have virtual schooling, since it meant less social interactions. It was a sad time marked by the death of my Grandmother and two aunts from Covid, but we did not have PTSD merely from following Covid protocols.

I would not give air to her complaints. Just mark a beat and go on with your conversation.

So if your mental illness (anxiety) was enabled by COVID protocols, you don't understand how a social person could have been triggered by the same protocols requiring that they spend a year by themselves?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If she has PTSD from such a minor imposition as to wear masks and socially distance, then I would consider whether she has a pre-existing mental health disorder. It's not possible for a healthy person to have PTSD just from that; bad memories, certainly, but not clinically significant trauma.

We are a neurodivergent family with a lot of triggers for anxiety, but for us it's the opposite. We were relieved to isolate and have virtual schooling, since it meant less social interactions. It was a sad time marked by the death of my Grandmother and two aunts from Covid, but we did not have PTSD merely from following Covid protocols.

I would not give air to her complaints. Just mark a beat and go on with your conversation.

So if your mental illness (anxiety) was enabled by COVID protocols, you don't understand how a social person could have been triggered by the same protocols requiring that they spend a year by themselves?

No one had to spend a year by themselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its a money grab from therapist creating drama instead of teaching people to think rationally.

+1000

I bet she'll still be a patient years from now, because this is so "difficult to treat" or some such nonsense.