Hello, this is Jennifer Matarise.

And mostly what I would like to do right now before I start the episode is thank all of my listeners for being exceptionally patient with me.

For those of you who don't follow the Twitter or Facebook accounts, I've been having a bit of a setback with my depression the past few weeks,

to the point where I spent one three-day period

in bed without the spoons to do more than the essentials. And I've been struggling to regain

enough energy, both mental and physical, to do more than drag myself into work every day

so I don't get fired and I can still pay rent.

Sometimes I feel like I started this as solely a podcast about tragic moments in history and now it's partly become a podcast about tragic moments in me being mentally ill.

But so many of you have sent lovely encouraging messages about me talking about being mentally ill.

So I just wanted to say another huge thank you.

I did kind of step away from the social media accounts for a little bit.

I stepped away from writing for a little bit.

I couldn't take a vacation from my job.

So unfortunately, I still had to go to

that, but I had to roll something back. So that is why I did not post a lot about Grenfell Tower,

the several terrorist attacks that we've unfortunately had in the past couple of weeks.

The ferry, I believe it was, that sank today.

There's been a lot of things that have been happening, and I really haven't said a lot.

But hopefully I'll be able to start posting more news and more links to news about disasters to the Facebook and the

Twitter account again.

I also wanted to share something with those of you who don't follow the social media accounts

and may not know something else that happened recently, although I did want to say before I

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