This is a significant community tragedy and will be emotionally traumatic, for people who who were involved directly and for others.
In addition to the direct impacts, many of us may experience: -Loss of trust -Loss of our idea (s) of the future -Loss of feelings of safety -Difficulty articulating what we have lost / minimizing our experience in light of those who have lost more
Others may experience: -Relived grief from other authority figure failures (for example, I lost family to the pandemic and am now viscerally reliving that experience, in light of reduced resources to future pandemic prevention) -Loss of community / pulling away from community -Acute mental health crisis
I’d like to challenge those of us who are treating this dispassionately to check in with ourselves: if you are having trouble clicking away from the updates, if you find yourself distracted or weirdly paralyzed, take note.That’s likely grief.
This is a significant community tragedy and will be emotionally traumatic, for people who who were involved directly and for others.
In addition to the direct impacts, many of us may experience:
-Loss of trust
-Loss of our idea (s) of the future
-Loss of feelings of safety
-Difficulty articulating what we have lost / minimizing our experience in light of those who have lost more
Others may experience:
-Relived grief from other authority figure failures (for example, I lost family to the pandemic and am now viscerally reliving that experience, in light of reduced resources to future pandemic prevention)
-Loss of community / pulling away from community
-Acute mental health crisis
I’d like to challenge those of us who are treating this dispassionately to check in with ourselves: if you are having trouble clicking away from the updates, if you find yourself distracted or weirdly paralyzed, take note. That’s likely grief.