tento point mi pride strasne dolezity: to ako sa zachovame teraz, nam moze pomoct vyrovnat sa s nasledkami traumy.


Psychological trauma, which is one way to think about the effects of what’s going on today, comes from a combination of an extreme event and its difficult aftermath: “trauma” literally means “wound”. We know we will all be wounded in different ways by the pandemic, and suffer different losses. Our recoveries, too, will follow different paths. However, we can make choices now about how we act, and it is very important to our future recovery that each of us will be able to live with our actions afterwards. Doing the “right thing” — insofar as we can know what that is — is of the utmost importance.

...It will bring out the best and worst in people. When picking up the pieces after the event, remembered moments of bravery and selflessness are very often the things that help us to see the point in continuing. The choices we make now — even tiny ones — will make every difference to how we feel about ourselves, and others, in the future. The social bond is everything — and perhaps now that we’re unable to express it physically, even with a handshake, we can see it in even sharper relief. If we can trust ourselves not to behave badly, it will be far easier for us to believe that other people, too, can be decent. Good relations, in this troubling new reality, are perhaps the most valuable thing we have.

People who suffer from post-traumatic stress are often said to be trapped somehow in their own past, unable to disentangle themselves from the accidents, atrocities or tragedies that have befallen them. They relive the event as if hoping to correct it: “What if I had done things slightly differently? Turned left/said ‘no’/resisted temptation?” Although this pandemic has surely taken us by surprise, things aren’t moving so quickly that we can’t think and make choices about how to act within it. If we do the right thing by one another as much as we possibly can, there’s a hope that, whatever wounds we are about to sustain, we’ll be able to heal together.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/19/radical-niceness-coronavirus-crisis