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Peter Kitto's avatar

The greatest impact on someone’s mental health is betrayal. This can result in symptoms similar to PTSD and even more severe. Many of the people that I council for PTSD suffer this additional complication. Betrayal can render an individual mentally and physically dysfunctional in many ways. I expect to see more and more dysfunctional people in the near future who will need mental health treatment and support.

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The days of fear porn are done. I managed ok....because I have had life long anxiety. And I learned stuff. Lots of therapy..eventually to protect my brain....meds. but even with meds and they worked and took 30 years to get made, as all those things in mental health are a 6 week long crap shoot because it takes 6 to 8 weeks to rebalance brain chemistry gently (it's a thing), I had to learn new thinking habits because....my body could not take it anymore. The anxiety....was killing me. The anger and rage....supressed..damaged my liver.

So my search was resilience. Resilience to keep and maintain and not let that anxiety overtake. Thing is....I recognized the fear porn, and forced myself not to give in. Why? I live side by side with it. So when I saw my friends and neighbours get afraid and then lose all compassion, or refuse to accept that maybe some people have experienced good reasons to not experiment with big Pharma's answer my friend for example,(she literally reacted poorly to several conventional meds and had to be treated) and got told no by her doc on vax, getting paperwork and fighting for exemptions...who wants to have a fight to buy groceries? Or have to explain their needs over and over. I watched people blame people over a disease when a disease is a disease. They became inhumane, detached and driven by anxiety into outrageous levels of callousness.

The only thing Dr Henry said at the beginning of this was, be kind. And now I know why. As much as information helped some of us, too much darkness can make you assume there are threats everywhere. That's not risk management. That's giving up your power to fear.

Most people don't have to manage anxiety and fear at the levels we have seen, and yes the media applied fear. Yes they are not equiped. But damn it all, coping is coping.

Here is a secret. Psychoimmunology is a thing, where are our bodies can detox and managing stress and attitude has had people reverse cancer. They don't know why but it works. So what do I do? Supplement because I don't get enough of this or that, make destress a thing, and trust that my body can heal. I am still thinking that spike protein is an issue, but I have also had my body do ok with maintenance of simple things I can control, like my attitude.

Yeah, panic attacks can feel like a heart attack. But even then...breathe. need o2 to your brain. But we can all pep talk each other. No you can't take back the vax, but I also trust my body to heal. My job is listen. Pace yourself. Let it detox.

There is more to it. The panic won't help. We can still encourage those that worry, to let it go over and over, till next 5 minutes what can one do? Simple goal directed behaviour. And in the next 5 minutes. Make it smaller. Because it's not impossible. Oh, they can try, but spiritually we can compensate. Because healing always can happen. It's a process not an event, and we have to trust in that our bodies can and will eliminate problems.

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