by Anonymous | 2nd Feb 2021 | Identity, The Covid Diaries
People keep asking me how I am coping with lockdown. Given that it is also January, the coldest and often most miserable month of the year, and given that I am a little up and down emotionally at the best of times, and struggled with lockdown when it first happened in...
by Anonymous | 21st Jan 2020 | Stress and Burnout
“There’s the door. Be my guest!” He had been winding me up all day, muttering and glowering and asking pointless questions. But when he put his course folder on his head and announced that the activity he and his colleagues had been asked to do was straight out of...
by Anonymous | 23rd Jul 2019 | Stress and Burnout
What do you do after a magical day? I am like a little squirrel with a nut, cocooning myself away from reality and holding tight to my nut, polishing it and guarding it, treasuring the memories, reliving them. If anticipation is half the journey, then reflecting back...
by Anonymous | 29th Mar 2019 | Stress and Burnout
Usually it starts over a few days, sometimes weeks. I can feel myself flattening, like a bottle of lemonade with the lid left ajar, its energetic bubbles gradually fading until the colourless liquid remaining becomes sluggish, and finally still. Lifeless. That...