Ginger Zee Talks Mental Health

ABC News Meteorologist Ginger Zee says that these are tough times for her and she is trying to find ways to deal with it.

Zee suffers from depression, says she feels the darkness creeping in amid the coronavirus pandemic.

“I wake up some mornings, still, and I see the darkness,” she wrote on Instagram for Mental Health Awareness Month. “I feel it’s slow creep, like blinds on the windows on a timer. Slowly closing, trying to take me on a spiral down. Telling me to isolate, drink, avoid.”

“I want to run away to a warm deck somewhere, cry and drink an entire bottle of wine. Smoke a pack of cigarettes. Numb my brain and throw my phone in a lake,” she wrote. But the 39-year-old said she is able to turn to other ways of coping, writing: “Thankfully now I can pull myself out of the spiral these days. I didn’t always have the tools. I didn’t always think I had purpose. I can talk myself out of the darkness for at least an hour or two. I anticipate that will happen today.”

She adds, “I’m fighting the darkness today. And I still have fear that today is the day I won’t be able to fight as well as I have for the last ten years,” she also wrote. “Despite that fear, I am not going to stop fighting. You shouldn’t either.”

As for me, I can forego the wine and cigarettes, but I wouldn’t mind throwing my phone in a lake.

Just saying….

H/T NY Post

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