After a chat with Mrs. GamerDude this week, GamerDude decided to devote this episode to talking about situational depression and anxiety, and to sharing some thoughts on how to deal with it. "Situational" depression is different from clinical depression and can be brought on by a specific set of circumstances - like dealing with Covid and its ramifications for over two years. He talks about how daily life during the Covid pandemic has created a "new normal," which brings with it many opportunities to be both depressed and anxious. He talks about the uncertainty in the world, and the differing attitudes of individual people, and the companies we work for, and our government, and how those attitudes can be so frustrating and depressing. He also talks about how the fact that this "new normal" has changed the way we shop, and eat out, and travel, and wo ...