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| Michelle Obama: Former US first lady says she has 'low-grade depression' | Michelle Obama: Former US first lady says she has 'low-grade depression' |
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| Former US First Lady Michelle Obama has said she is suffering from "low-grade depression" because of the pandemic, racial injustice and the "hypocrisy" of the Trump administration. | |
| She said managing "emotional highs and lows" required "knowing yourself" and "the things that do bring you joy". | She said managing "emotional highs and lows" required "knowing yourself" and "the things that do bring you joy". |
| Mrs Obama said she has had difficulties with her exercise routine and sleep. | Mrs Obama said she has had difficulties with her exercise routine and sleep. |
| "I'm waking up in the middle of the night because I'm worrying about something or there's a heaviness." | "I'm waking up in the middle of the night because I'm worrying about something or there's a heaviness." |
| She made the comments during the second episode of her eponymous podcast, for which she was interviewing US journalist Michele Norris. | |
| "These are not, they are not fulfilling times, spiritually," Mrs Obama said. "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 and day out, is dispiriting." | "Not just because of the quarantine, but because of the racial strife, and just seeing this administration, watching the hypocrisy of it, day in and day out, is dispiriting." |
| She also said it is "exhausting" to be "waking up to yet another story of a black man or a black person somehow being dehumanised, or hurt, or killed, or falsely accused of something." | She also said it is "exhausting" to be "waking up to yet another story of a black man or a black person somehow being dehumanised, or hurt, or killed, or falsely accused of something." |
| "And it has led to a weight that I haven't felt in my life, in a while," she said. | "And it has led to a weight that I haven't felt in my life, in a while," she said. |
| However, she said "schedule is key" to managing these feelings - and that maintaining a routine has become even more important to her in the pandemic. | |
| For the first episode of the podcast she interviewed her husband Barack Obama, who was in office before Donald Trump. |