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Have you ever had the experience of a doctor telling you what was wrong with you, and even if you couldn't really do anything, it helped to know what it was?  Maybe it was just an ache or pain, a small illness.  Just having a name for it -- even some fancy latin term (or maybe especially some latin term) -- somehow makes it seem better.  Naming something helps us feel some control. This pandemic has stripped us of many feelings of control.  It more often feels like life is disrupted and dangerous.  Early in the pandemic -- but far enough in that it was clear we were headed down a long path -- I was wondering why it took me so long to process that we were in for a long-haul... with implications for every segment of life.  Why had I "missed" the signs? Denial.  That is what I realized.  I had been playing the denial game. Which reminded me that I was experiencing a grief response.  I was in grief!  From the pandemic.  Well, the pandemic losses and impact. Over the next few weeks, as I talked with individual