I love this take on mental illness! Thank you for this post. I need to reread and immerse myself some more in this concept but you are onto something here. Fascinating!
I love that you both understand and write this down so the rest of us can understand! When covid first hit, I asked a social worker friend of mine how his patients were doing. He said the ones with long standing anxiety were doing the best. They already had the tools to deal with scary uncertainty along with years of practice using those tools. True resilience is invisible in our current culture.
Aww, Lesley. This is such a beautiful comment. I also think of COVID and how much "easier" it was on me than for a lot of my family/friends because of this exact reason.
This is so true. Even during 2020-21, I was looking at people losing their shit and thinking, "some of you have never experienced childhood trauma and it shows". Don't get me wrong; that long isolation and uncertainty messed me up, but I had my hard-won habits of dark humor and 'make the demons earn their keep'.
Yesssssss. So true. I joked back in 2020 that I was "built for an apocalypse" re: social distancing. Now that I've actually started researching and understanding it, I realize that I'm only built for it when it comes to things like this... not the physical "leading the charge" kind 🤣
I love this take on mental illness! Thank you for this post. I need to reread and immerse myself some more in this concept but you are onto something here. Fascinating!
Thanks so much for reading, Tammy! I'm so glad you found it fascinating - I do, too!
I love that you both understand and write this down so the rest of us can understand! When covid first hit, I asked a social worker friend of mine how his patients were doing. He said the ones with long standing anxiety were doing the best. They already had the tools to deal with scary uncertainty along with years of practice using those tools. True resilience is invisible in our current culture.
Aww, Lesley. This is such a beautiful comment. I also think of COVID and how much "easier" it was on me than for a lot of my family/friends because of this exact reason.
Yessss! Sitting in pain/sadness/freeze/etc. AND moving on with life... #SuperPower
You're right, Will -- it IS a superpower!!!
This is so true. Even during 2020-21, I was looking at people losing their shit and thinking, "some of you have never experienced childhood trauma and it shows". Don't get me wrong; that long isolation and uncertainty messed me up, but I had my hard-won habits of dark humor and 'make the demons earn their keep'.
Yesssssss. So true. I joked back in 2020 that I was "built for an apocalypse" re: social distancing. Now that I've actually started researching and understanding it, I realize that I'm only built for it when it comes to things like this... not the physical "leading the charge" kind 🤣
I agree. We will have an advantage. I hope you are ok today. Good luck with your writing.
Thank you so much for reading and your comment, Lisa! <3
No problem.