2020 has impacted all of us in one way or another. Isolation, sickness, or the loss of a loved one were common occurrences. I remember walking down the street alone or driving late at night (disobeying the curfew) to feed my feral/stray cat colonies obviously, I wouldn’t abandon my volunteer work. And I thought how bizarre it was to see the streets with no cars and the skies with no planes. It was as if the whole world has stopped in silence.
I'm pretty sure I experienced what would have been diagnosed as clinical depression during the second half of 2020. It came from the constant exposure to scared humans who believed that OCD-fueled mask wearing was all that stood between them and the Grim Reaper.
Thank you for taking the time reading my article. I believe we all suffer from a form of depression because of the pandemic. I’m doing better now, thank God. It was so surreal, something you would see in a movie. Being able to go back to the gym has been a life saver 🙏🏽
I often wonder if we had let the pandemic proceed without interventions, as they have always done in human history, and there would have been peaks of disease and death and chaotic scenes in hospitals but it would have passed through. Likely over in less time and we would all have terrible memories of the period but it would be done. We would feel we triumphed over it. Now we have the skeleton of an authoritarian system tested widely across the planet that can be resurrected at any time. Rolled out to shut down our existence, to control us, turn us against each other, force our decisions.....this is the ghost of the pandemic. It’s the scariest ghost I’ve ever encountered.
I'm pretty sure I experienced what would have been diagnosed as clinical depression during the second half of 2020. It came from the constant exposure to scared humans who believed that OCD-fueled mask wearing was all that stood between them and the Grim Reaper.
It was a stupid time.
Thank you for taking the time reading my article. I believe we all suffer from a form of depression because of the pandemic. I’m doing better now, thank God. It was so surreal, something you would see in a movie. Being able to go back to the gym has been a life saver 🙏🏽
I often wonder if we had let the pandemic proceed without interventions, as they have always done in human history, and there would have been peaks of disease and death and chaotic scenes in hospitals but it would have passed through. Likely over in less time and we would all have terrible memories of the period but it would be done. We would feel we triumphed over it. Now we have the skeleton of an authoritarian system tested widely across the planet that can be resurrected at any time. Rolled out to shut down our existence, to control us, turn us against each other, force our decisions.....this is the ghost of the pandemic. It’s the scariest ghost I’ve ever encountered.