Not only are masks dangerous to us physically, they are (perhaps even more insidiously) tools of mass behavior modification.
1)A mask instantly causes depersonalization
2) Crowds of masked individuals are no longer individuals.....Forced conformity
3) Soft Terrorism... IOW when we look at each others faces we get information about who the other person is and what their intent is. A mask is terrifying, because we are not given the information necessary to make a judgement, causing us to move about in fear.
I can relate to this. I am honestly traumatized by seeing others wearing masks. I am consciously aware that I need to "work on myself" a bit to learn to cope better because it is still such a part of my landscape (inescapable) -- but I still feel my gut clench; it is a kind of automatic PTSD triggering. Makes me angry that it affects me still.
No, I don't want to accept it. I want to figure out a way not to be triggered by it -- but definitely I want to live in reality. Maybe I can transform my emotions into something else that is less distressing to me. It is mostly that I frequently am going about my business, feeling happy or normal or neutral or whatever, and then I randomly catch sight of a masked family with masked children, or a 60-ish couple masked in the grocery store, and it's like I'm slammed back into 2020/2021 again, at the height of the shunning and threats of vaccine passports, loss of job, etc. And it takes me quite some time to regain my equilibrium again.
You will always be triggered by it. The day you are not, the dehumanization is complete. So what you need to do is accept that it triggers you, that this is a normal reaction to an abnormal event. If you cease thinking your reaction is "wrong" or a problem, it won't be as traumatic as it had been. It will be a fleeting, marginally disturbing flash of recognition that will leave as fast as it came.
Not only are masks dangerous to us physically, they are (perhaps even more insidiously) tools of mass behavior modification.
1)A mask instantly causes depersonalization
2) Crowds of masked individuals are no longer individuals.....Forced conformity
3) Soft Terrorism... IOW when we look at each others faces we get information about who the other person is and what their intent is. A mask is terrifying, because we are not given the information necessary to make a judgement, causing us to move about in fear.
VA Pittsburgh hospital requires veterans to wear a mask or they are denied medical care.
How is this humane?
Vets are reduced to nameless and faceless entities. We are not even allowed to sit next together because every other seat is blocked off.
Plexiglas is still up muffling conversations with clerks...many vets have hearing loss because of noisy environments while on active duty.
They hate us.
They absolutely hate us and they want us dead.
I can relate to this. I am honestly traumatized by seeing others wearing masks. I am consciously aware that I need to "work on myself" a bit to learn to cope better because it is still such a part of my landscape (inescapable) -- but I still feel my gut clench; it is a kind of automatic PTSD triggering. Makes me angry that it affects me still.
You don't need to work on yourself at all, because what you feel is a rational intelligent human reaction to a masked face.
Masks are for bank robbers terrorists and Halloween. Of course you feel threatened.
Accepting it is dehumanization.
No, I don't want to accept it. I want to figure out a way not to be triggered by it -- but definitely I want to live in reality. Maybe I can transform my emotions into something else that is less distressing to me. It is mostly that I frequently am going about my business, feeling happy or normal or neutral or whatever, and then I randomly catch sight of a masked family with masked children, or a 60-ish couple masked in the grocery store, and it's like I'm slammed back into 2020/2021 again, at the height of the shunning and threats of vaccine passports, loss of job, etc. And it takes me quite some time to regain my equilibrium again.
You will always be triggered by it. The day you are not, the dehumanization is complete. So what you need to do is accept that it triggers you, that this is a normal reaction to an abnormal event. If you cease thinking your reaction is "wrong" or a problem, it won't be as traumatic as it had been. It will be a fleeting, marginally disturbing flash of recognition that will leave as fast as it came.
Please don't keep doing this
Think of Me. I live with a man COPD emphysema and a superior attitude.
His mom passed and the only ones at funeral were him, me, one of my kids, 2 of his cousins
SHE HAD CHASED AWAY ALL HER FRIENDS WITH HER CRITICAL ATTITUDE
She was I'm thinking angry at her life. And everyone that came in contact was made to feel guilty for what SHE did