Thread by @WeAreDisabled

TW trauma. To add into talks about mental health: Covid and trauma. I think that after this all is over, You will see a lot of trauma appearing in people related to Covid. Whether it is from how people are treated by society, near dying, of having closed ones dying, it is a lot.

https://twitter.com/WeAreDisabled/status/1326817065144037376

I actually see it already in myself and some friends that we seem to be getting trauma responses and many in our community talk about this. The thing what bothers me is that there is no talk about this on the grand scale, and in the Netherlands the breakdown of mental health

care is still happening, so the chances that there will be room for people to deal with this is very slim.

We have this ableist saying in the Netherlands. “Just be normal, then you are crazy enough.” People responsible for trying to tear down mental health care used things like

that people should just go to the neighbours and drink a cup of coffee and talk things over. They have no understanding of mental health at all and it is all down to a responsibility thing instead of a thing that happens. We want to create this image of a down to earth kind of

people and mental health issues do not belong in that. That is the reason why it is not happening here, but I see many many countries failing this part so hard, so I need to say this to those who need to hear it:

Some of you, probably a lot of you all may have had trauma

responses too and some will probably experience people that say it is not as bad, or invalidate your trauma to a certain point you start to doubt yourself. They don’t see the harm of isolation or having to work with covid raging on. If you need to hear this today, hear it now:

You are right. You were right. This was shit. But know this also. You are not alone. We got you. You have this community to fall back on. And it is hard. But you are amazing and despite everything. You can do this. And most of all, you are not to blame for how you feel. <3