How To Do Laundry When You’re Depressed @TED #ted #shorts

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If it's too hard to shower  today, grab the baby wipes.  
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It may not be the normal way to do it,
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but you deserve to be clean.
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If it's too hard to cook dinner,
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get paper plates, heat up something frozen.
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You’ll go back to cooking and washing another day,
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but the day is not today.
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And in the meantime, you deserve to eat.
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If you're too depressed to do your dishes,
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get a two-gallon Ziploc bag and keep it in your bedroom.
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Because if you put a dirty plate into a  two-gallon Ziploc bag and seal it,
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it will keep the bugs away.
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Because you deserve a sanitary environment
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even if you can't get out of bed.
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I could share with you hundreds of other genius solutions
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that people have come up with once they embraced the idea
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that care tasks are morally neutral.
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In my experience, people will exhibit mind-blowing creativity
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when they are only taught how to speak compassionately to themselves.
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