Kamala Harris
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And as I reflected on it, it was literally, it wasn't a vacation.
It was like the oxygen mask just dropped, and we put it on and went to Hawaii.
And...
Some friends of ours met us there.
And we were like zombies, you know, for a while.
It was just—it was a very difficult thing to process that quickly.
Is that depression?
Probably.
I mean, it's—there is—the thing about one—about, you know, going, going, going, going, going, and then all of a sudden—
So there is that, which is just your body is physically used to this thing that all of a sudden stops.
And I've had that happen every time I've run and win even, right?
Right, right, right.
Even when you win the gold medal, people get depressed because— Yeah, because you've been functioning the whole time in a very competitive nature, and it's fight or flight, and it's adrenaline, adrenaline, adrenaline, surging, surging, surging.
And then there is the piece that is about, I mean, it lasted for days, which is almost that, you know, they talk about when people lose a limb, there's like the ghost or the phantom.
Right, the phantom limb.
And I had a hard time reconciling we can't still do something about it.
I knew.
It's just like I knew I was going through the stages of grief.
I knew.
So that's good to be able to put a label on something, but it doesn't mean that you don't otherwise experience it.