1/🧵As a psychotherapist on the 🦠 conscious register, I’m grateful to the author of this piece.🙏🏾 SO MANY struggling privately w/these issues. I’d like to unpack a few areas that jumped out at me. ‘Wrestling with my husband's fear of getting COVID again’ https://t.co/Adv7injt3R
Tragic to say this out loud, but here it is:
As a #LongCOVID researcher, I strongly urge the public to ignore recent @CDCgov guidance and input from @CDCDirector on the topic of #COVID. It is NOT based on consensus science and it has NOT been designed to protect you. Disgraceful
So high risk folks are just expected to what, stay home forever (not possible for many), constantly negotiate (often unsuccessfully) to exist in public spaces like everyone else, and bear the burden in protecting ourselves & others, right?
We're not exactly people in your eyes
Public transit & internet access should also be free as we need it for work and school, etc
Y’all will do anything before taxing the rich and I can’t even. They’re hoarding all that money like medieval dragons, but y’all want the struggling to cough up more and more $
11) If we claim to stand with our LGBTQIA+ siblings, but we're not standing close enough to get hit with the stones being thrown at them, then we're not standing close enough.
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Wouldn’t it be life-changing if instead of shaming anyone with mental health challenges for “attention seeking” we realized “support seeking” and “connection seeking” are at the core?
Also, what’s wrong with ATTENTION?
-Dr Jen