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WATCH: Focusing on Mental Health During Election Season
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10/15/2024
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I did want to make sure that we talked about mental health, because election season can
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also be weighing on a lot of people, especially this particular election cycle.
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It's something new.
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It's something different every day.
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Something meant to stress you out.
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Something meant to rage bait you.
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Some new information that you're trying to understand if this is real or not.
00:17
So what do you think, do you have any practices, one, to preserve your own mental health, and
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then as far as mental health services, how can we, in what ways can mental health services
00:28
improve to support us?
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Well, I just want to acknowledge at first that before going into the ways and the things
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that we can do, that this is draining.
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All of this is draining, talking about these issues can be draining, constantly looking
00:44
on the news can be draining, and just really this can all be draining.
00:48
And I remember in middle school I was very lucky to take classes which really educated
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us on these topics.
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And a lot of times I would come home very emotionally drained.
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I mean, it was like very heavy information.
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And so I had to find ways to kind of, I guess, you have to find ways, and if you decide to
01:07
go into this work very, and you're frequently doing this work, you have to find ways to
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reconnect and be able to connect back again.
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And so I think a lot of times finding some sort of escapism, watching something funny,
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or just doing stuff that you enjoy.
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