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Bipolar I disorder is not primarily about mood swings in the colloquial sense. It is about magnitude. A manic episode — full mania, not hypomania —…
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I was diagnosed with ADHD in my late thirties. By then I had already taught hundreds of hours of English, managed teams in high-pressure hospitality environments,…
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Marcus Aurelius did not teach English as a foreign language. But he had students, he had days that did not go as planned, and he had…
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Language is not a pipe. It is a world. There is a question I return to regularly, usually on the mornings before a difficult lesson: why…
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My name is Sourov Deb. I am a multilingual professional — native English, French C1, Bengali, working Hindi — based in Saint-Pierre, La Réunion (974). My…
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