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  • CYCLONE ALFRED’S AFFECT ON ME
    March 19, 2025 Rebecca Sharrock

    CYCLONE ALFRED’S AFFECT ON ME

    Storms and other unpredictable weather events definitely have a strong effect on my mental health. These can be thunderstorms, heatwaves, cold-snaps, or cyclones (as was the case for me last week). Brisbane sits in a subtropical region, and cyclones are...

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  • Illustration of a ladies silhouette with an outline of her brain on show. She is surrounded by clock faces and three lightbulbs to represent thinking.
    September 4, 2023 Rebecca Sharrock

    THE ONLY PROBLEM IS, THAT I NEED TO KNOW EVERYTHING IN ADVANCE…

    Since the very beginning of my life, I have always experienced anxiety about unpredictability. These episodes aren’t just mere moments of daily stress either. On the contrary, whenever an unexpected change happens my natural reaction is to completely lose control, and have intense meltdowns where I’m uncontrollably yelling as well as thrashing around on the floor. Now I have learned mindfulness exercises (of which I’ll soon discuss) that enable me to gradually pull my mind out of the terror. 
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  • a digital image that looks like a circuit board with a outline of a human head and its cortex
    August 8, 2023 Rebecca Sharrock

    I'VE HAD AN IDEA FOR QUITE SOME TIME...

    I was given a comforting (as well as exciting) idea. There was a time when I had to travel over to California, to have an MRI done by the lab researching one of the conditions that I have. My mother did of course have to come along with me, and we spent just over a week there. In addition to having my MRI that week, I also got to meet and talk to the famous robot Asimo. Asimo certainly was extremely technologically advanced for his time. He amazed crowds with these qualities; though I discovered that his primary purpose was to assist people with disabilities as well. That is when I received the idea of eventually having a robot of my own to both help me and keep me company.
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  • EYE CONTACT SCARES ME
    July 20, 2020 Rebecca Sharrock

    EYE CONTACT SCARES ME

    Just about every person Rebecca come's across in life notices that she find's it very difficult to make and maintain eye contact. This can either be from people talking to her, as well as from them just seeing her in person out in public, in a picture or on camera. 
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