hi romeo
i appreciate
your time at our cause
but i've also noticed that a few things
are going on with you and i think it's a
good idea to talk today
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so i noticed that you know you are
fighting through some challenges you
have some learning disability
right and some mental disability as well
you want to talk about what is going on
like what kind of disability are you
facing
What is your disability
yeah um
first my disability is
is my learning disability
it's hard for me to nothing no
things
uh if you give me the book
i
understand but if you ask me to put in
like on the test or a paper it's hard
for me to do that
that's the one thing yeah
and for my mental meta issue is
having depression
for couple years now
but
the worst one was during the winter time
or the when our wet weather is cold yeah
it was it is getting bad
so
um
some days like one or two or three days
i'm at the bed the whole time i don't
want to get up
you don't want to get out of the bed
bed or
do nothing i like to stay at the bed
yeah yeah that's hard
How do you motivate yourself
and then how do you motivate yourself to
come out
um
you should see me
like two years doing the coverage
nighting at the heartbreak a high peak
yeah
i stayed at the house the whole time
yeah it was bad yeah but after two years
uh
one day
at the night time
i was calling out a garbage yeah a cat
just coming to the house
uh i take care of the cat after that
my depression went away lit a lot since
i'm the cat
coming my into my life
how is it to make friends i mean is it
How is it to make friends
been a challenge or
you
um this is all saying
uh when you're around you can make
friends uh from
your
early age like from five to 18 you make
friends a lot
but when you reach like 30 or up
it's hard to make your friends because
people are busy with life
either they work
or they have family or
work and family there's no time for
people outside
i lost my job
but they offered me a
job uh the same company but
different uh different occasions in
hayward but i said
that's too far for me it's time to for
me to move on
yeah yeah
Does volunteering help
but i noticed that um
you are working a lot on our course
things right you are very good with
doing things does working for
volunteering for our course help you
yes um it helped me a lot i want is i
reach out to peep other people
by zoom call them or go to the store
or the in the office to get some
information
yeah for our non-profit so it keeps
Does it give you purpose
oh good it keeps you busy does it give
you purpose also to get up and go
and talk to people attend the meetings
right it gives you a purpose to
do things correct
yes
but um some days i cannot because due to
family
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matters like i bring my sister to her
work
yeah i pick her up
anytime so it's hard for me to go
outside that much and i thought i'm
taking care of my mom
yeah she's uh she's uh
69 and she just had a surgery
for her gus her cancer
we just found out she had a cancer in
the stomach oh no oh no yeah now good
thing is the other doctor says is stage
one
yeah he said good thing is we got it
stage one and we can remove early yeah
then
later
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yeah you
