Maybe things were said or done behind locked doors that will go on stinging for a long time. Perhaps some of those afflicted by Long Covid know who it was that took chances and passed on the infection. The research, led by Saima Noreen at De Montfort University in the UK, found that emotional forgiveness helped the forgivers to leave upsetting events behind them. Sometimes emotional forgiving is too hard and people who try to insist that a traumatised person forgive something from which they are still healing should, frankly, be quiet. Forgiving doesn’t mean abandoning your common sense – by which I mean your self-protective sense.

Source: The Irish Times May 13, 2021 04:52 UTC