Pandemic PTSD

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Panic attacks in the dentist car park Losing my temper in a Jersey sports bar Safe to say the twenties have been weird Dazed and confused in the morning after A two-year slow-motion human disaster T-shirt slogans to cover over the lockdown gut and the fear It's not just you and it's not just me: It's Pandemic PTSD I'm haunted by a kind of mourning For the life that we left in 2019 I know it wasn't perfect, but it's what I knew Physically distanced, told we're in it together But socially removed from our snickering betters Far too smart to abase themselves by following their own rules It's not just you and it's not just me That has pandemic PTSD Post-traumatic stress disorder Is characterised by persistent trauma Caused by severe psychological shock or else physical injury And maybe I'm just being melodramatic But I didn't use to be this agoraphobic Or paralysed by decisions but also crushed by inactivity And right about now some arsehole's going to say That it's OK not to be OK But we're way past that, and the conversation isn't done And I won't keep calm, I won't carry on Until it's OK to admit that I don't know how to feel About the shit that we just lived through it was kind of a big deal And one day it seemed like everybody decided They were tired of trying and bored of hiding it Ready for the next adventure, next news cycle, next catastrophe And we stood in the wreckage trying not to claim That we had more than our fair share of the pain But we got punched in the dick for two straight years And we can't move on that easily It might not be you, but God knows it's us That's still black and blue, bleeding in the dust So I'll level with you if you'll bear with me And my pandemic PTSD