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Well – an eventful few months! Despite being really keen to make the rest of my time at the school a positive and constructive one, in early December 2017 I succumbed to a bout of depression. Thinking back the signs had been there for much of the previous year but you know how it is – you try and keep going. I actually went to the doctors with another complaint but he asked me some questions about underlying issues and, to his credit, he recognised what was happening before it got any more serious or even terminal. Whilst feeling ‘depressed’ occasionally in the past I had never had such a period of poor productivity at work before. Teaching was fine, at least I think it was and all my observations were ‘Good’ but in the periods in between teaching, when I couldn’t rely on 28 years of experience, I really…