The Importance of Adapting to a Low-Grade Winter

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LZ Granderson has PDD persistent depressive disorder which means that your life feels like a kind of low-grade winter most of the time. LZ describes his British climate as 'a sort of low level drizzle' and says he is lucky to be able to work from home with his fellow comedian, who also suffers from depression. He talks about how living by the sea helped him get out of bed in the morning because it meant he wouldn't waste the day. Also explains why he loves working online at 10 o'clock every Monday morning on 45 minute chat show called Zoom With A German lady.

Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.

This week Katherine chats to Angela Barnes, podcaster, comedian and regular panel guest on Mock The Week (and much more!).

Angela Barnes has zero tolerance for anyone reassuring her that she's pretty - it talks over her lived experience, and does nothing to change her self-perception. Here, she discusses living with Persistent Depressive Disorder, which has made her whole life feel like the drizzly English climate, but which has also made her more able than most to endure the hard-knocks life of a stand-up comedian.

A very cheerful chat which always zeroes in on the important points with lazer focus, picking up on where Angela is in the greater pandemic situation, working with her PDD, building daily frameworks, having a comedy tribe which normalizes certain behaviours and actions, fear of rejection, CBT, entitlement, TV, the perils and - well, perils of social media, and the notion of beauty on a grand scale.

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