I've talked before about the "sense of a foreshortened future" trauma effect I got after the pandemic, and whew, that shit is REAL. That one has taken a LONG time to finally start unknotting. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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As someone who nearly died 20 years ago, trying to reframe things like colonoscopy prep as something I GET to do because I've SURVIVED LONG ENOUGH to hit screening milestone. Reframing "getting older" milestones as badges of pride instead of negatives. "Lived long enough to go through menopause!"etc

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I've been using the reframing trick a lot the last two years. In a chaotic world where I control very little in the grand scheme, the reframe has been a great tool. It was helpful to me to acknowledge that it was ok to acknowledge this is what I was doing. It works either way

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*Boring historian voice* “welcome to the Long Pandemic Era”

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"Chances are, if you're seeing a doctor, they might actually have my name " This wav of fresh Mamdani-style Dems give me LIFE

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