The former First lady of the United States said, “go through a form of mild depression”, “not only because of the quarantine, but also because of the racial strife”.
Michelle Obama is not a fan of the current period. The former First lady of the United States has said suffer from a “mild depression”. “I wake up in the middle of the night because something is bothering me, or because I feel a weight,” explains the wife of the former president Barack Obama in the latest instalment of his podcast, which aired Wednesday on Spotify. “I try to do sports, but there have been times during this quarantine where I just didn’t have the moral”, she says.
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Michelle Obama, 56 years, is also said to pass “through the ups and downs of emotional that everyone feels”. Moments “during which we do not recognize”. “This is not a time during which it flourishes, spiritually”, she adds.
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“I know that I go through a form of mild depression,” says Michelle Obama. “Not only because of the quarantine, but also because of racial strife. And see this body, see his hypocrisy, day after day, it is demoralising”, says the former First lady.
“We are at a unique moment in our history”
The United States has been the scene in recent months of protests, anti-racism without precedent, caused by the death of the middle-aged black George Floyd at the end of may under the knee of a white policeman. Michelle and Barack Obama, the first black president of the United States, remained in Washington after leaving the White House in January 2017.
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Michelle Obama also said in his podcast that it was “exhausting” to “wake up and see yet another story about a black man or a black person being dehumanized(e), wounded(e), killed(e) or falsely accused of something.” “And this leads to a burden that I have not felt since a time in my life,” she says. “We are at a unique moment in our history,” she said. “We are going through something that nobody in our lifetime has experienced,” according to her.
