Michelle Obama Feels 'Low Grade Depression' Over Injustice, Covid

ALI VELSHI: We are doing something a little different tonight. We normally start this show with one topic in the news. Today we're starting kind of with all of it and why it's making you feel the way you feel. We're living in the middle of a pandemic under an incompetent administration. People are not just worried about how it stay healthy but also pay rent, put food on the table. Protesters are demanding racial justice. They've been met with unnecessary violence by police. Our politics are as divided as perhaps they've ever been. And if you're human this gets to you. And sometimes it helps to hear that others are feeling the same way.

Especially when that someone is Michelle Obama.

In the second episode of her new podcast the former first lady opened up about how this difficult moment is weighing on her.

MICHELLE OBAMA: I've gone through those emotional highs and lows that I think everybody feels where you just don't feel yourself. And spiritually these are not -- they are not fulfilling times spiritually. You know. So I know that I am dealing with some form of low-grade depression, not just because of the quarantine, but because of the racial strife and just seeing this administration, watching the hypocrisy of it day in and day out is dispiriting. So I've had to kind of give myself that, those days, those moments.

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