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        <title><![CDATA[Ginger Zee gives mental health update: ‘I see the darkness’]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Ginger Zee</strong>, who suffers from depression, says she feels the darkness creeping in amid the coronavirus pandemic.</p><p>&#8220;I wake up some mornings, still, and I see the darkness,&#8221; she <strong>wrote on Instagram</strong> for Mental Health Awareness Month. &#8220;I feel it&#8217;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.&#8221;</p><p>ABC News&#8217; chief meteorologist said she feels the urge to turn to certain vices to fight off her feelings.</p><p>&#8220;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,&#8221; she wrote.</p><p>But the 39-year-old said she is able to turn to other ways of coping, writing:&nbsp;&#8220;Thankfully now I can pull myself out of the spiral these days. I didn&#8217;t always have the tools. I didn&#8217;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.&#8221;</p><p>She also shares her feelings with her support system: her husband, PIX11 reporter Ben Aaron, her mother and her therapist.</p><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m fighting the darkness today. And I still have fear that today is the day I won&#8217;t be able to fight as well as I have for the last ten years,&#8221; she also wrote. &#8220;Despite that fear, I am not going to stop fighting. You shouldn&#8217;t either.&#8221;</p><p>In 2017, Zee — who authored the candid memoir “<strong>Natural Disaster: I Cover Them. I Am One</strong>,” — revealed that <strong>she had attempted suicide</strong> at 21 years old. She <strong>also began starving herself</strong> at just 10 years old.</p><p>Zee and Aaron are the parents of two children.</p><p>She has been shooting &#8220;Good Morning America&#8221; from home amid the pandemic.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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