It hit me the other day while trying to explain an aspect of the Covid-19 pandemic in the same manner I would to a 4th grader, that the intelligent and normally very well balanced friend who I was speaking with, was suffering from stress, and possibly more.

This distressing realization woke me up to the fact that I had been brought into study of the viral pandemic months ago. As a result I was months ahead in comprehension of what is possibly the most complex challenge since working on the disaster at Fukushima. I had been actually made aware of the potential for what we are experiencing last October. Study began in earnest the beginning of January. So I resolved to write a  little bit about what I am seeing and have learned, in both group and individual study. This is my first specific entry.

psychosis | sīˈkōsəs | noun (plural psychoses | -ˌsēz | ) a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality. ORIGIN mid 19th century: from Greek psukhōsis ‘animation’, from psukhoō ‘I give life to’, from psukhē ‘soul, mind’.

Here is a short informational video on Siege Mentality, and Bunker Mentality, which is what I suspect to be occurring at the present hour.

Why do these aspects matter? Because perception is critically important in times of crises. It radically affects one’s neurological response and ability to make prudent, well thought out decisions in order to alleviate the threat.