Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying things are exactly the same. IEDs and snipers are indeed different from infectious diseases, but the mental toll they can have on us is oddly similar, given what I’m seeing. I am definitely not a medical or psychological expert, I’m a professional internet clown, but I’ve seen enough trauma up close to recognize it. And why wouldn’t over a year of baseline fear punctuated by days or moments of intense terror be enough to mess people up? THAT is precisely how I’ve described my deployments before, and the truth of that situation is that it took me an entire year of being separated from the military to decompress from that situation.
There’s also a related feeling when I came home of being left behind. Seeing so many other people during (and now after) the pandemic that seemingly never stopped just living as if things were normal. Between that and many levels of the government behaving the same way, but on a larger scale, there can be anger along with that trauma. What gave them the right to just keep moving forward like nothing was wrong while almost 4 million people were inextricably torn from the world? Yes, it is absolutely unfair that they just continued to move forward without considering how it could hurt others. Your anger is righteous, it is valid, and just so many of us share in it. This may sound odd, but anger can be a good thing; it is an actionable feeling. Just look at how righteous anger fueled the protests of last year. It’s an emotion like any other that deserves to be (healthily) expressed, so tell someone, write it down, or follow my lead and tweet into the void about it.
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