There’s an even better way through it. Fight back. Use it as motivation to change a broken system. Kick the idiots out of power, and make sure this can never happen again. Make Mom’s sacrifice mean something.
This. I’m tired of pathologizing “uncomfortable” reactions. It is appropriate to have resentment over what they described. But also - none of the remedies they say they want are actually vengeful? Oh no - they want a stronger CDC, and a monument to those lost and some opportunity for societal-level grieving.
The person who posted this isn’t dealing with this poorly. They are pointing out that our society dealt with this disaster poorly, diving head-first into violent denial. And that our response as a society is continuously re-traumatizing them as someone who lost their mother.
We are all in the madhouse created by Fox News, fascists, megalomaniacal billionaires and white nationalists. Maybe being told this is a personal mental health problem is a problem and worth criticizing.
There’s an even better way through it. Fight back. Use it as motivation to change a broken system. Kick the idiots out of power, and make sure this can never happen again. Make Mom’s sacrifice mean something.
This. I’m tired of pathologizing “uncomfortable” reactions. It is appropriate to have resentment over what they described. But also - none of the remedies they say they want are actually vengeful? Oh no - they want a stronger CDC, and a monument to those lost and some opportunity for societal-level grieving.
The person who posted this isn’t dealing with this poorly. They are pointing out that our society dealt with this disaster poorly, diving head-first into violent denial. And that our response as a society is continuously re-traumatizing them as someone who lost their mother.
We are all in the madhouse created by Fox News, fascists, megalomaniacal billionaires and white nationalists. Maybe being told this is a personal mental health problem is a problem and worth criticizing.