Community support and staying connected are crucial in the winter months to combat loneliness and depression. Setting personal health goals and promptly addressing health changes are important strategies.
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Absolutely, thank you very much. And with this in mind, what kind of support do you find helpful or wish you had to get through the winter healthily? I mean, this could include support from professionals, community, peers, family members? I think people need to get together more during the winter months than the other seasons, particularly because that's the time when you read about and you hear about a lot of the depression. people are just withdrawing from family and friends, and people really, I don't know if it's because they sit down and it's something inside of them that's working on them, but that's the time when they should be, we should be gathering as groups or should have opportunities online to go and talk to somebody like you and I are doing this morning, or whatever it is, but I'm sure that there are things that LifeGrid offers for people like that, that they could take advantage of, or just get in touch with their health provider, and that he or she will guide them to the right place to help them during the wintertime. But I can understand why people do get depressed in the wintertime, because it is a solemn time of the year and things sort of die down tremendously. But it's also a time to me, what I've done in my personal life is, it gives me a time to think about me and what I can do to make myself better. And also how much I appreciate just being alive. Absolutely, and this is exactly what I was going to ask, okay, towards the conclusion of your answer that, do you set yourself any personal goals for your health during the winter? Would you like to tell us a bit more, you know, in terms of what are they, how do you go about reaching them? My only goal, whether it's winter, summer, spring, or fall, is to stay on top of how I feel. If I don't feel well, I do something about it then rather than later. If I notice a change in my body, I try to stay on top of it. So winter has no precedence over summer or fall or spring, it's just another time of the year when we still have to live regardless of what's happening around us. So whatever's happening around us, if something's happening to me, no matter what time of the year it is, I'm going to do what I can to get it corrected as soon as possible. Sure. Absolutely. And if you.
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