@knowprose Good share, thank you. I have been through many steps of this, and am currently going through another.

My family refuse to acknowledge that Covid is still dangerous, so I can’t visit them, and haven’t for years now. Being physically away from them is allowing me to finally drop away another remaining layer of trauma survival left over from childhood.

The reminder from this article that how I’m feeling now is not true depression, but rather a physical internal change happening as this layer of childhood protection falls away is what I needed to hear now.