I just feel generally down.
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I wish I could turn the sound off or down and I wish I could hit enter to send chat messages
Hello, what can I help you with this evening?
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Question
I am feeling very depressed lately. Like a constant pressure that i don't know exactly what it is
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Depression is extremely rough to deal with, I'm very sorry to hear you're going through that.
assistant
Affirmation and Reassurance
I think the days getting shorter makes it worse.
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Oh yes, less light during the day makes the days seem compacted and suffocating
assistant
Affirmation and Reassurance
Do you have any tips on how to overcome it?
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I believe there are special lamps that you could get to help. I personally have been trying to get up a little earlier in the morning and enjoy my coffee with the sunrise and a scroll through Instagram I also already have to schedule and routinize my day because I work and go to school from home, so I make sure to give myself breaks where I literally must get up and leave my desk, be in another room for a little while.
assistant
Self-disclosure,Self-disclosure
Yes, i like to be up to enjoy the mornings but i am also hard to get woken up I like to stay up, but when it's time to get up i dread it Bad cycle
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Sure, that's understandable. There are opportunities throughout the day to get a little more vitamin D, you just have to make sure to give yourself time to enjoy them.
assistant
Providing Suggestions
Time is the fire in which we burn.
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Now that is intractable
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Others
Lol...yes it is The pandemic heightens all our awareness of time and mortality
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Sometimes, to me, the enormity of the universe is calming to my anxiety. Being assured that I mean absolutely nothing is nice sometimes.
assistant
Self-disclosure
And drives the civil unrest which makes me feel anxious and insecure
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Not in a scary, better-off-dead kind of way, but in the way that a galaxy is a slow moving explosion. I'm a flea to the universe.
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Others
Yes i find that a strangly comforting thought
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... then you have to wonder, what are fleas thinking?!
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Others
They have the luxury of instinct without having to "think" at all
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God, tell me more, lol
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They just be fleas. Fleas gonna flea.
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Galaxies gonna spiral.
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Others
I worry too that the U.S. government has no idea what it's doing And the people at large are all losing their mental health
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Yeah they have kicked the can down to local governments, local governments kick the can down to the citizens. It's absurd. No on wants to take responsibility for taking responsibility. It's a very uncertain situation and it's a psychological reality that when we don't have physical or metnal security, it's extremely hard for a human being to progress through stages in life or learn new skill as well or at all
assistant
Reflection of feelings,Providing Suggestions
I guess it's like you said before, we can only change ourselves
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So everyone's plans are canceled for the year, plus no one has any idea when the shit's going to end, so not unlike a dog at the vet, the suffering seems interminable.
assistant
Reflection of feelings
And focus on our own development True Well thanks for your support and kind words, ending chat now
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