CV and mad panic behaviour

[Baggers]

Careful what you wish for, dictator Dan is on the verge of making the lockdown even tougher.

One is an emergency response to a failing.

The other is preventative.

Both are terribly difficult for many.

And to be honest and perhaps too revealing. I am personally one of those, from a mental health perspective, who suffers pretty badly on announcement of a lockdown, and during a lockdown. I feel instantly 'trapped' which triggers my PTSD quite badly. I aint Robinson Crusoe. I can inform you that DVA/Open Arms and many RSLs are run off their, under resourced, feet during such times.

In real terms what does that mean? On lockdown announcement and news stories of escalating infections, I experience: shortness of breath (anxiety asthma, although I don't have asthma), shaking, loss of appetite (a severe symptom for this little black duck!! ), IBS, nightmares, uncontrollable short bursts of weeping, loss of interest in most things I enjoy, hot and cold sweats and waves of severe panic. Dealing with these things and getting them under control, takes days, at times weeks, and involves assistance from other professionals in my field. A couple of times emergency intervention.

But at no stage do I blame, lash out at or feel critical of those in Victoria making these lockdown decisions.

If I do feel angry at anyone, it's the self interested, ignorant b@stards who flout the lockdown rules creating it more difficult for everyone, by creating more Covid breaches and infections. In fact I've felt angry enough at these pr1cks to stupidly wonder, for a brief moment, if a half ounce of lead behind the left ear isn't the cure to rid ourselves of these fools (would never seriously consider it, but sure have felt it - fleetingly). I am certainly supportive of legal measures to get these clowns off the streets to protect the greater majority of good folks who are team players, as draconian as that may seem.