I was just wondering if anyone else has found that this year has had a really hard impact on them emotionally and in terms of mental health. I feel like all the big political events of the year have been hammering home the message 'you don't matter' and I feel as though that has crept into my brain and across my whole life, and that this is echoed in how I feel about work (and wasn't helped by having gone for some jobs I felt really passionate about and not getting them) and also some friendships drifting away. But I think I'd be coping with those thinga much better without all the background noise coming from the wider world.