Moving Makes Me Sad

Why moving is one of life’s most stressful events.

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The first time I moved, I was 16. I had been living with my family in a maisonette apartment in Braddell View — a large, government subsidized residential development in Singapore. That year, my dad had purchased house. It was just a 10-minute drive, but a whole different world from Braddell View. Leaving my childhood home was traumatic and I had a manic episode that kept me…