Tag: mental health
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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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How I deal when I don’t know what comes next
Late on Friday afternoon, I received an email from a colleague in our admin team, informing everyone about a staff meeting to be held at 9:30am on Monday morning. I asked my boss if I could spend a few minutes of it speaking briefly about my work; he said yes, and I sat for several…
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