Do I need to somehow 'process' the covid pandemic?

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I've always been lucky to have pretty robust mental health, I seemed to have coped well with lockdown even though it was really stressful.
But now it's all kind of over I find myself thinking about it all more and more. I think about random events in random order, i have sudden memories of the day we heard schools would be closing, the time we heard the prime minister was in hospital, the time I cried on the phone to my dad because I had washed and packed away ds's gym bag and couldn't imagine him ever using it again, the first time we had to queue up to get in our local shop.
I look back and its all a weird blur with moments of crystal clear memories.
I feel like i somehow want to go back over it all again in order and sort of let it all sink in. Is that a thing? Or am I just being a bit pathetic? None of my friends and family seem to be dwelling on this in the same way, they all seem to be carrying on fine, and the two I have directly spoken about this to just don't feel the same.
I wonder about starting by watching some sort of documentary, if there is one, going back and reading the really early covid threads on here, I don't know.
Does anyone feel similar or have any ideas to help me make my peace with all of this? Its so unusual for me to feel like this, it's thrown me.

It sounds as though your reflecting on events. As far as I'm aware that's normal. People do this at different points in time. I end up doing this quite a lot due to my nature of work as a nurse you come across traumatic events and it can take months before I go back and think about these things, if I don't reflect on them straight away. Sometimes it's too painful to reflect on.
This might be the way your friends are feeling, some may not feel it's near the end, it might be to painful to reflect on.

I think it's normal, some people are happy to put It all behind them and move on, others need to reflect and process. I'm the same. I work in a supermarket and the first few months were very scary as we all felt so unsafe. I recently watched the last season of superstore, a comedy but the first episode made me cry as it brought back all those emotions from the start of the pandemic.

I don’t feel like this but it is perfectly understandable. Maybe you could try writing down the memories as they come to you as a way of processing. It might be you feel (on a subconscious level) it’s finally safe enough to deal with these feelings now.

I feel exactly the same OP although I didn't cope very well with lockdown at all, I found it traumatic really and was so sad for dcs.
I feel that it is all an unprocessed blur. I am hoping it will get better with time.