People keep asking me if it’s normal to feel anxiety for no reason right now.
It’s not anxiety for no reason. It’s anxiety because the world turned upside down overnight.
More people are depressed right now than at any time in our history and very little is being done about this.
The two most important things right now are getting people proper medical care and proper emotional care and neither of them are what’s front page news. Vaccines, inappropriate elected officials, testing snafus, people partying without masks…this is what we are talking about when millions are at home struggling emotionally and not getting the support they need to make it through this.
Our minds weren’t built for this onslaught of negative messaging and constant messages of fear and uncertainty. We weren’t/ aren’t taught how to deal with stress effectively in school or in most family structures. (I do believe that would be a great class to have for our children and all humans.)
Constant mixed messages about how we should be taking care of each other and ourselves, daily news about how the people in charge are messing up from the CDC constantly mishandling testing and testing results, to our elected leaders giving false and contradictory information…our unconscious minds are at times in chaos over what is going on and we weren’t built for this level of confusion on a global scale. We need new skills for this, we need new maps for this, and we need to have our mental and emotional health be what we focus on along with ensuring people are safe and taken care of.
It’s not anxiety, depression or feelings that are intense and scary for no reason…you have EVERY reason and then some to be feeling exactly what you are feeling.
This is a situation no one planned for or even thought was possible. As a professional who has worked with PTSD for over 20 years, those in the field recognize this is what PTSD and trauma is built on, situations out of our control that we have no map for.
Why we aren’t talking about the emotional challenges we are enduring as a global community and how to deal with this is unsettling. We are setting ourselves up for a global PTSD crisis. I wish we would start addressing this more in our communities, as it’s clear we need to take this on locally. Talking with each other is one of the ways we get through this as humans. We need to get honest with the emotional challenges we are all going through, and start learning new tools for emotional resiliency and sharing them with our children.
Blessings, Satya
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