Former first lady Michelle Obama said she has been “dealing with some form of low-grade depression” amid the coronavirus pandemic, but that trying to maintain a routine has helped her cope.
Obama said that her struggles with mental health were “not just because of the quarantine, but because of the racial strife and just seeing this administration, watching the hypocrisy of it day in, day out is dispiriting.”
However, she said that “staying in a routine, getting a workout in, trying to get outside,” has helped.
The former first lady was speaking to U.S. journalist Michele Norris on the second episode of her eponymously named podcast which was released Wednesday. Referring to the killing of George Floyd while in police custody in May, which sparked widespread protest, she said she had found it “exhausting” to continuously wake up to “another story of a black man, or a black person, somehow being dehumanized, or hurt, or killed, or falsely accused of something.”
Obama added that this had “led to a weight that I haven’t felt in my life in a while,” saying the worry caused her to struggle with sleeping, waking up in the middle of the night.
At some points while staying home during the pandemic, Obama said she felt “too low” to workout but had allowed herself to “surrender” to those feelings and not be too hard on herself.
“It is unusual and it’s a direct result of just being out of body, out of mind and spiritually, these are not … fulfilling times,” she said.
She added that doing puzzles had become a popular pastime in their household and that her husband, former President Barack Obama, had been teaching their daughters to play the card game Spades.
A spokesperson for the White House wasn’t immediately available when contacted by CNBC.
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Dig deep.
#1: Esso To: Dakmar (#0)
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I think that chickie-poo reporter is trying to f*ck you out of your part-time gig.
Wanna buy a vowel?
Esso posted on 2020-08-06 12:27:20 Reply Private Reply
#2: Pinguinite To: Esso (#0)
Pinguinite posted on 2020-08-06 12:46:26 Reply Private Reply
#3: X-15 To: Esso (#0)
You're depressed because President Trump is reversing everything you and your goddamned half-mulatto 'husband' and his troop of apes did in your attempts to turn America into Zimbabwe.
MAGA/2020
X-15 posted on 2020-08-06 14:00:04 Reply Private Reply
#4: Bill D Berger To: Dakmar, Esso (#1)
I thought the "woke" mob banned that game?
Bill D Berger posted on 2020-08-06 15:00:36 Reply Private Reply
#5: NeoconsNailed To: Esso (#0)
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-08-06 15:08:04 Reply Private Reply
#6: BTP Holdings To: Esso (#0)
Do you think his daughters will learn to call a Spade a Spade? ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-08-06 15:22:20 Reply Private Reply
#7: Lod To: X-15, 4um (#3)
Lod posted on 2020-08-06 15:48:28 Reply Private Reply
#8: Esso To: Bill D Berger, Dakmar, 4um (#4)
I'm sure the stupid bitch doesn't even know what she did, yet.
It was certainly worthy of one of Dakkies subtle mind-f*cks though.
CANCELLED!
Esso posted on 2020-08-06 20:49:54 Reply Private Reply
#9: Dakmar To: Esso (#8)
Dakmar posted on 2020-08-06 20:55:23 Reply Private Reply
#10: Esso To: Dakmar (#9)
OK. And red cars.
Esso posted on 2020-08-06 20:58:15 Reply Private Reply
#11: Dakmar To: Esso (#10)
Dakmar posted on 2020-08-06 21:03:06 Reply Private Reply
#12: Bill D Berger To: Dakmar, Esso (#11)
Great song, and lyrics! One of my favorite Rush songs.
The story behind a song
It was never a hit like “Tom Sawyer” or “Limelight,” but one of the standout tracks on Rush’s seminal 1981 album Moving Pictures is a song that should be near and dear to any motoring fan’s heart.
“Red Barchetta” tells the story of a future when Orwellian safety-obsessed governments have passed “motor laws” banning most forms of recreational driving.
The song’s narrator/hero, however, has an uncle who owns a sports car – presumably a two-seat Ferrari “Barchetta” (Italian for “little boat”). One a sunny afternoon he hops the “turbine freight” out of town, takes the car out from its hiding place in his Uncle’s barn and spends the afternoon with the wind in his hair, enjoying the freedom of the open road. Until the authorities come after him, that is.
As the government’s “silver alloy air cars” come after him, our hero violently racks the Barchetta around and takes off for the safety of his uncle’s barn – with the future cops hot on his tail.
You can read the original short story that inspired the song here: A NICE MORNING DRIVE
Bill D Berger posted on 2020-08-07 05:38:50 Reply Private Reply
#13: James Deffenbach To: Esso (#0)
Hell, tranny's are always going to have mental problems. Reprobate mind and all that.
James Deffenbach posted on 2020-08-08 00:41:49 Reply Private Reply
#14: Lod To: Bill D Berger (#12)
Lod posted on 2020-08-08 06:58:52 Reply Private Reply
#15: StraitGate To: Bill D Berger, Lod (#12)
www.ericpetersautos.com/2018/12/09/the-motor-law/
StraitGate posted on 2020-08-08 09:08:35 Reply Private Reply
#16: Lod To: StraitGate (#15)
Lod posted on 2020-08-08 09:29:42 Reply Private Reply