“Covid -19 has really shaken me up,” Elizabeth, a nurse at a COVID-care hospital, reported. “I have been disturbed by so much that I have witnessed—and experienced. I have lost dear ones and colleagues to death. I have experienced firsthand the callousness and cruelty with which especially the elderly sick were treated, simply left to die. What to do? We were just helpless in the face of this deadly virus and the lack of resources to handle it. And the way the dead were disposed of, deprived of any dignity, their dear ones not able pay their last respect, not even able to see them. I have screamed at God in anger and desperation…Why do such things happen?”
Elizabeth is not alone. So many of us, from different walks of life and in different ways, have seen our world come crashing down. Our illusions of safety and security were shattered. COVID-19 has caused massive disruptions and distress in our lives. It is easy to give in to despondency and despair.
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