Michelle Obama has told journalist, Michelle Noris that she is suffering from “low-grade depression.”
She listed the causes of her present mental health to include the hypocrisy of the Trump administration, #COVID19 pandemic and racial tensions.
Her state of mind has also caused her sleeplessness and an inability to keep up with her exercise routine.
The former FLOTUS added that she finds it exhilarating to wake up daily to “how this administration has or has not responded, waking up to yet another story of a black man or woman a black person somehow being dehumanised or hurt or killed or falsely accused of something.”
Speaking further, 56-year old Mrs Obama said that “I am waking up in the middle of the night because I am worrying about something or there’s some heaviness.
“These are not, they are not fulfilling times, spiritually. I know that I am dealing with some form of low-grade depression. 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, it is dispiriting.”
The Boston Globe reports Michelle Obama as saying that “(The highs and the lows) have been real for me. I don’t think I’m unusual in that. But I’d be remiss to say that part of this depression is also a result of what we are seeing in terms of protests, the continued racial unrest that has plagued this country since its birth.”
The former First Lady of the United States added that the situation “has led to a weight that I haven’t felt in my life, in a while.
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