Hello, everyone. My name is Mary, and you're listening to Prologs. Hello, girls. And the 2% of Prologs listeners who are men. And I guess the less than 1% of Prologs listeners who are non-binary. Everyone is welcome here. How are we doing? I'm recording this on the last day of September. October starts tomorrow. I am feeling a lot of things.

The last, I think it's four years in a row, I have had absolutely colossal mental breakdowns during October.

That happens four years in a row. I feel a little worried because I can't help but think,

okay, is there something in the month of October? Is it triggering something subconsciously?

Is it just a hard time of year for me for whatever reason? I don't think it is because

October is one of my favorite months of the entire year, October, November, December.

That's like a high point of the

year for me. So why do I always just have really bad mental health in the month of October?

I don't know. I feel like that's something I need to unpack. But I'm determined this year to have

a good one. A bit of a rough start, though, because my allergies have been just horrible this past week so that's the

energy i'm bringing into october which i don't love but i have really really bad seasonal allergies

i never did growing up but as soon as i moved away when i was 18 i guess my body was fine with the

plants surrounding my home and in my hometown and And then as soon as I moved away,

my body was like, okay, well, we hate these plants. Can't do it. I have awful seasonal allergies.

I frequently will get sinus infections and I've even gotten bronchitis before when my allergies

have gotten really bad and complicated. So I'm being very proactive. I'm doing as many preventative things as I can.

The air purifier is roaring every day. Every time I go outside, I'm trying to wash my hair to get

pollen out of my hair. I'm immediately putting clothes that I've worn outside in the wash to try to get

pollen out. I'm really trying my best. I'm taking all my supplements, all my vitamins.

I'm scared. I'm scared you guys. But I'm excited for fall. Because fall is really kicking off.

And for once in Virginia, the weather is acting like fall. I've seen a lot of people talk about

feeling apprehensive because they're worried about their seasonal depression.

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