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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My sister is a med-surge nurse handling Covid patients daily since March. She has developed severe service anxiety, gotten an online therapist, gotten on medication, and took a short leave of absence from her job (but was threatened by the hospital to be fired if she didn't come back so she's back working).  She's ultra paranoid about covid but not being rational in her actions to coincide with that paranoia (sometimes wants to see my parents who are very old, getting upset if people are wearing masks in public and then getting upset when they're not, disinfecting groceries but going to get take out, making her own wipes because she doesn't trust factories, making her kids take off their clothes in the yard and hosing them down when coming back from a park, etc).  She also complains that people in her neighborhood treat her like she is wearing a scarlet letter and purposefully avoid her and her children when they're out of walks or riding bikes because of where she works (a kid told them that was why they had to cross the street, because his mom said they had bad germs from the hospital).

I am treating my sister with grace and patience.  She's literally trying to keep her head together, keep her job, keep her family safe, pay her bills, etc.  Perhaps your sister is deal with incredible stress on all levels from all directions.  Take a pause, take a breath, imagine being in her situation, hug your baby.  Hopefully this will pass.  [/quote]

It is great that you are extending compassion to your sister.  It sounds impossibly hard, and I suspect that many, many, many front-line workers are experiencing stress, fear, isolation, and anger, and are just overwhelmed emotionally.  I can't even imagine.  [/quote]

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