Coronavirus and my mental illness

First of all, welcome to my new blog!  
If you know me from my other blog: 'Promise to Keep' you will know that I am a Christian and I don't hide although sometimes it might make people wonder how good of a Christian I really am.  My mental illness might cloud my attitude to life although I don't want to make that an excuse for not being the Christian I am supposed to be.  Because of my illness I don't see perfection of any kind to be attainable.

Anyway, we are here to talk about the Coronavirus and my struggle with it.  I try to be informed as much as I can.  But at one point, it reached information overload and I get really frustrated with people being TOO cautious about the infection.  People in the world at large do not understand the toll it has on the humans struggling with depression 24/7.  Because having a mental illness is just as serious as Covid-19 and you can die from it too.  Mental illness is way under estimated by people.  By paying so much attention to the FEAR of Covid-19 we have I think neglected other "viruses" in our society even fear itself.  I am not saying that Covid 19 is not killing people because it is obviously doing it but fear always increase the power of something or someone such as a situation.  The world need to deal with its fear before it can tackle anything else.  I know that I am touching on a sensitive subject because of relatives dying but I am sure that keeping our distance and washing our hands with soap is enough and trust our immune system to take over.  If I am wrong I apologise, I realize that frontline workers have to take more careful measures.

I just wanted people to know how a person with mental illness may feel but I am not saying I am right.  I still force myself to do better but I just want everybody to know my feelings about the whole thing.  I think is too overdone and it makes people like us frustrated.

Do you feel the same?  I opened myself up to you so please if you like share with me your struggle and frustration.  Do we have the right to be frustrated and express it?
I also get frustrated with the odd news of police officers giving a ticket for a nonsense infraction in regard to Covid-19.  Don't you?
I was not planning of this being this long but here is a short poem about the Coronavirus experience.

Little Virus

Bernard Demaere

 

Little virus

So mighty and strong,

How could you in a

Few weeks,

Stop the world,

Off its feet?

 

A few of you

Can bring death

To humanity,

That’s

So small and frail.

 

How we shake

Our heads

That all the worst

In us

Is brought 

To light

 By this simple test.

 

Such a small virus

Under a microscope,

But so mighty

To defeat

Humanity

In a few weeks.





I was born in Belgium ����.I am retired and living with my wife of 36years, Cathy. We are the proud parents of two adult married children. One of each, Zoe and Steve. Now we have grandchildren as well. I love writing, I don’t write some poetry. I have quite a collection of poems.

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