That uncomfortable coronavirus feeling: It could be grief

[William769]

(CNN)Maybe you're among the most fortunate in the coronavirus crisis -- your loved ones are healthy and you're sheltering at home.

Yet you still feel emotionally bulldozed by the pandemic. Those feelings of uncertainty, helplessness and exhaustion may be grief.

"A lot of people who I speak to, and I would include myself in this, we just feel flattened," said Phyllis Kosminsky, a clinical social worker in Westchester County, New York, specializing in grief, loss and trauma.

"We've lost that sense of certainty, that sense of safety, that sense of predictability and so it stands to reason that all of that leaves us feeling dislocated and unsure about what's going to happen next," said Kosminsky, who is president of the Association for Death Education and Counseling.

With more than 110,000 Covid-19 deaths recorded globally as of March 14, people all over the world are grieving the sudden loss of loved ones, and the intensity of those losses is clear.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/15/health/grief-loss-coronavirus-pandemic-wellness/index.html

[Girard442]

1. Some of us had a head start on that after the failed impeachent.

Didn't help much.

[agingdem]

3. before impeachment

2016...and we knew what was coming...we knew what this malicious, ignorant, sociopath was capable of or incapable of and we prayed please g-d let their be no end of times...we knew McConnell and the whole putrid Republican Party would kiss the foul ring of their leader because priority #1 was to stack the courts with incompetent right wing sycophants and priority #2 was to subjectugate the "other.".. people of color and ethnicities, immigrants, the poor so that the white masters could get richer...and because of trump all their hate could come out of the shadows..impeachment wasn't the beginning..

[Girard442]

4. {Pours agingdem a drink}

[The Magistrate]

2. Fear, Sir, As Well

It is like being cast back a century in time, to a period when for many deadly things here was little medical science could do. People who have lived their lives mostly or completely in the latter half of the twentieth century are not used to this. We are accustomed to assuming that the doctors can pull us through, at least through anything short of cancer or some fluke no more likely than being struck by lightning.

Born a half century before I was, and all else being equal, I likely would have lost a foot if not my life from blood poisoning before I was twenty, and would almost certainly have died before seeing fifty from a heart attack. Flu is fairly serious event for me, but it does not worry me much, it is something I know they can deal with at the hospital, or even at home with a prescription.

With this contagion, things are quite different. he doctors can do nothing to cure, and past a point, not much to even maintain life while your own body tries to figure out how to pull you through. And it is capricious, it may do you know harm or it may lay you out cold, and there is no way to predict which might be a person's fate. All anyone with any sense knows it that it could happen to their loved ones, or to themselves.

So every little twitch or twinge becomes occasion for fear.

[LuvLoogie]

5. Sadness and disgust with The Vandal's supporters, as well.

For my daughter who is in her first year of high school and was exhibiting so much independence and drive. She made the volleyball team last fall and tried out for and made the soccer team for this spring season. Plus she was excitedly planning her quinceañera.

My younger daughter is fine with staying at home, LOL, but she misses her classmates.

But I also grieve for my older relatives who are missing out on contact with their adult children and grandkids. The last remaining sibling of my departed father has one child, who has one adult special needs son. This aunt of mine had been a great driver of extended family gatherings and outdoor excursions to the lakefront and forest preserves. She has spent the last several years as a docent for the Brookfield Zoo near Chicago.

Maybe after all of this, actual human contact will become the norm again.

[raccoon]

6. Thanks for posting this. The last few days, I've been feeling like that

Thanks for posting this. The last few days, I’ve been feeling like that. The article expressed it better than I could.