Today in the Baliwick Express, Guernsey addition, an article about masks triggering PTSD for Afghanistan war veterans. Many terrorists cover their faces so being bombarded by angry mask wearers who are hiding their identity and emotion under their mask can be very triggering of war time flashbacks - to make matters worse, these veterans are often hard of hearing from bomb blasts and can’t read the mask-wearers lips or hear their muffled voices.
Today in the Baliwick Express, Guernsey addition, an article about masks triggering PTSD for Afghanistan war veterans. Many terrorists cover their faces so being bombarded by angry mask wearers who are hiding their identity and emotion under their mask can be very triggering of war time flashbacks - to make matters worse, these veterans are often hard of hearing from bomb blasts and can’t read the mask-wearers lips or hear their muffled voices.
PTSD is a confusing condition.
But this pair Andrew Hieghton-Jackson and his wife were refusing to wear their own face masks, for hell knows what reason, he can't be scared of his own wife surely?
And post office staff should not usually bombard the customers, mask or no mask. This story seems a bit far fetched to me.However, I extend my sympathy to injured veterans like Andrew Hieghton-Jackson, perhaps in future he should wait in the car while his wife posts the Christmas packages, that would be the easiest solution to the dilemma. It might not be appropriate to cease all mask wearing on account of this single far fetched episode, but if masks do no good, we should certainly ditch the idea, if they cause distress, no matter how far fetched the circumstances.
@ewloe ‘for hell knows what reason’ = medical exemptions.
‘Scared of his own wife’ = the mask is the trigger, also the mask stops the injured veteran from the lip reading necessary after a bomb blast injury to the ear.
‘Far fetched’ = nothing far fetched about it.
‘’easiest solution’ to avoid society? = Or people could adopt good manners and not badger the medically exempt.
‘’might not be appropriate to cease all mask wearing’ = mask wearing alone wasn’t the issue, it was three staff badgering one customer who became distressed.
‘’extend sympathy to injured veterans’ = by calling their ‘episodes’ far fetched?
@ewloe ‘’easiest solution’ to avoid society? = Or people could adopt good manners and not badger the medically exempt.
I agree that manners and pleasantries have slipped in this convulsion. If he gets freaked out by masks , avoiding the post office might be best. Due to government rules, the post office simply does not want people on their premises unless they wear face coverings. And that leads to misunderstandings.
@ewloe “for hell knows what reason” - it should also be noted at the time of the incident face masks weren’t mandated on Guernsey- they were not declared mandatory by the local government at the time of the incident, so a better question might be, why the hell would people be forced to wear face masks?
@why the hell would people be forced to wear face masks?
It is widely assumed they reduce risk. And some people get distressed near people without masks. I am sceptical about all that, but it is the way things are now. no matter what you cannot make everybody happy.
@ewloe analysis of mask studies and data indicates they don’t stop the spread of viruses so it’s debatable what is widely accepted as the truth. Most people wear them when told but whether they believe in them or whether they are merely compliant sort of characters is unknown besides arguably some surveys which are only a small number of the population. The fact they make some people happy and some people unhappy isn’t the point - neither is the point whether they are functional or not - the point was a few staff members ganged up on one poor customer and caused undue hardship.
PTSD can be triggered simply by being forced to do something you don't want to do.
It often relates to surpressed trauma memories from early childhood, trauma in adult life can trigger the early fixed emotional memory without knowing or rememering what caused the original trauma.
This is why Psychedelic therapies are showing great promise in treatment for PTSD (now starting to be defined as complex PTSD) as the drugs can allow the patient to access the original memories and process them correctly with the benefit of mature adult experience and context.
There's a good doc on Netflix atm covering the first Psychedelic drug trial for treatment resistant depression in London, the parallels with cPTSD are obvious.
