I didn't make it up! I think I first learned it in the 1990s from my therapist, who specialized in trauma recovery.
I wrote about the epidemic as an endurance trauma, and its connection to other experiences of this in my life, on my blog, two weeks after the first COVID death in NYC.
https://flatbushgardener.blogspot.com/2020/05/grief-and-gardening-defiant-gardener.html
#COVID #COVID19 #trauma #endurancetrauma #personalhistory