10-14-2021, 10:59 PM
(10-14-2021, 12:20 PM)DJC link Wrote:I'm happy to put my hand up and say that it's had no impact on me. But then I was forced to do National Service and had virtually no contact with family and friends for almost two years while living and working in a very challenging environment. Fortunately, I didn't have people firing live rounds at me. They said it would make a man out of me - perhaps it did :![]()
Seriously though, the pandemic may have impacted on the mental health of some folk but most of my family, friends, neighbours, acquaintances, etc are sailing along and making the best of it. I guess it's a resilience thing.
If you can put your hand on your heart and tell me you have experienced 0 angst, anxiety, fear, frustration during this time, you aren't being resilient you are actually in denial.
Which is also an indicator of peoples mental health being impacted.
The key here isn't to minimise it.
If a pandemic doesn't cause some mental health impact I dont know what to think of you, but the fact you even stated resilience is a tell. Resilience by very definition is to have experienced the sort of impact i am talking about and then returned to pre crisis levels quickly.
You aren't resilient if you experience no crisis.
"everything you know is wrong"
Paul Hewson
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