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 Pandemic friends and mental health It is a fact that mental health has been abandoned by the country's institutions and in a pandemic the scenario is neither different or favorable. From my experience and conversations with my close friends the pandemic has had a negative effect on us by the confinement and everything else that happens in Chile. In the sense that it has created new fears insecurities and for sometimes not having a support network at home. During quarantine I have had really bad days and what has helped me is watching movies and listening to music and something important is calling my friends by zoom or FaceTime. Doing this some days is difficult but it has really helped me to have a little “normality” in my life.  If someone who is reading this feel bad or sad I send you a lot of encouragement and hope that things will better soon. 

  My thoughts on voting in the plebiscite  By @naomadariaga on Instagram. It is difficult for me to believe in the plebiscite because it was an agreement between the same political class, which has not answered the demands of the people since the return to democracy.  But I also think that possibly it is the only opportunity we have to change something. We urgently need to improve the health system We need environmental policies that are at the level of the environmental crisis that is being experienced worldwide and policies that respect and spot putting the communities in risk We need legal, safe and free abortion We need to abolish the Sename We need to free political prisoners  We need to end the "pardons" for big companies We need access to quality education  And we need everything that is requested with greater intensity since October 18, 2019. For the same reasons I think it is important to vote in this circumstance, also for those who lost their eye...