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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not the same.  It changed me, us, everything.  I feel much less grounded and sure - in our institutions, in my fellow humans, the future. Everyone around me seems to teeter between anxiety/anger and being checked out.  Everyone is overwhelmed.  Or maybe it’s just me.[/quote]

You articulated what I couldn't. This is exactly how I feel. [/quote]

I read this in an article about the pandemic and collective trauma, and it helped me to understand why I'm having trouble moving on.

[google]Trauma can be understood as a rupture in "meaning-making", says David Trickey, a psychologist and representative of the UK Trauma Council. When "the way you see yourself, the way you see the world, and the way you see other people" are shocked and overturned by an event – and a gap arises between your "orienting systems" and that event – simple stress cascades into trauma, often-mediated through sustained and severe feelings of helplessness.

Even our most everyday tragedies stand as potential pits for trauma. Being fired from a job, for example, can be highly traumatic. One's identity, the foundation of a "personal GPS", is often tied to work and its execution. A job provides self-esteem, purpose and a social network, as well as comprising the activities of much of waking life. Being unexpectedly fired overturns this all. Stress accumulates and the nervous system is forced on high-alert.

One's mental resilience, the oil that churns our cognitive machine and keeps us moving in stress, is depleted. And if nothing fills the gap – nothing external to define and evaluate your worth, no other reasons to go on, nothing to explain the why, what, and how of each day – for some time, one can become unmoored. It takes an update and reframing of your beliefs and sense of self, a new round of "meaning-making", to work through the trauma's impact.[quote]

[url]https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210203-after-the-covid-19-pandemic-how-will-we-heal[/url]

Some people continue to define themselves through their extreme COVID viewpoints. As this thread demonstrates, you have people fueled by anger at what they believe are unjustified and unreasonable restrictions on their lives, unable to muster compassion for anyone whose view of COVID was different from theirs, and on the other hand, there are the zero COVID people (which are often vocal activists for other causes) whose identity focuses on performative expressions of moral superiority and judgment of others.

In between, there are the majority of people trying to make sense of what happened. But it can be difficult to get motivated when you can't see the horizon. [/quote]

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