When I read the headline, “Fauci tears up over pandemic ‘PTSD'” it made sense. Given the fact that trauma can hit anyone and leave behind scars, it would be a wonder if he didn’t have it.
Dr. Anthony Fauci teared up over his “post-traumatic stress syndrome” from dealing with a health pandemic.
“It’s affecting you now,” an interviewer for FAUCI said.
Fauci replied: “Yeah.”
The interviewer asked why.
“Post-traumatic stress syndrome,” Fauci, 80, said.
Washington Examiner
The Boston Globe headline read “Ordinary life in MA is over for now: Walsh orders construction shutdown, tally of cases statewide rises to 197″ back in March of 2020. ““The coronavirus is one of the greatest public health challenges our city has ever faced,” Mayor Martin J. Walsh said at a City Hall news conference.” We later learned how right both those points in the Globe were correct, but only the beginning.
It was a lesson to the world on what PTSD actually is. One day life as we know it is a certain way. The next day, that life ends when we become survivors and we have to start to adapt to the changes. Sometimes the change is hard to take at first, but then you get accustomed to “different” everything.
When Dr. Fauci said that it was a “novel virus” it meant that it was new and as science was able to learn more about it, guidance would change. At first they said where a mask and stop gathering in groups. Most people did but too many didn’t want to stop enjoying their lives, doing what they wanted to and refused to adapt. What was worse was, they didn’t even want to wear a mask when going out in public places, like grocery stores. Some just didn’t want to believe it. Others complained that the CDC kept changing what they advised. Yet again, reporters failed to remind people that their advice would keep changing as they learned more about this brand new killer.
What happened to Fauci? He not only got blamed. He became a target of death threats. He watched too many medial workers pay the price as more and more lost their own lives and became totally stressed out. What did they ask the rest of the people to do? Wear a damn mask and stop acting as if nothing changed, when everything did.
People with PTSD often do the same thing. They want to go back to the way thing were before and when that doesn’t happen, they become angry. They take out that anger on everyone around them. They want to blame someone for their suffering. They want fight what they can see because they don’t know how to fight what they cannot see.
The people who refuse to adapt ended up spreading COVID-19 to everyone else and are still complaining about what they want instead of asking what they need to do. The rest of us, trying to do the right thing, are still paying the price for what they choose to do. Too many are saying, “My body my choice” without ever once considering that with this pandemic, what they have in their bodies is only hurting them until they open their mouths and breathe it onto everyone else. It stops being their body and their choice when they let out that bad breath!
Most of us with PTSD end up suffering because of what someone else does. That is easy to understand but we suffering more because of what people choose NOT TO DO to help the healing begin.
Remember, it’s your life…get in and drive it!
#BreakTheSilence and #TakeBackYourLife from #PTSD
