Tag: depression
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You got light in your eyes
On my Facebook this morning a memory popped up of a blog post I’d shared two years ago, when I was living in Melbourne. That year, I lived on Rae Street in Fitzroy North, and kept a blog titled Sophie Rae Street, where I wrote about settling into a new city, not dissimilar in title […]
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An update on my anxiety
“Is your anxiety better or worse in Timor?” Two friends now have asked me this question since I’ve moved here, and I’ve answered each differently: to one I said better; the other, worse. Both answers were true. The first friend asked me in the weeks immediately after I moved to Dili — acknowledging that an […]
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Some things that help
A couple of weeks ago, I published a post called “The Six-Month Slump,” in which I wrote about the apathy and melancholy I was feeling five-and-a-half months into my time here in Timor. I wrote it the day after I’d lost my bank card to an ATM, stumped home in a sulk with a bottle […]
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