{"id":17912,"date":"2026-04-27T15:05:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T05:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leehopkins.com\/?page_id=17912"},"modified":"2026-04-29T16:16:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T06:46:01","slug":"lee-hopkins","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/leehopkins.com\/vi\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Hopkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Words, wit, and wonder. Mostly about why people end up depleted, miscategorised, or quietly performing wellness they don&#8217;t feel.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I&#8217;m a counselling psychologist and writer. I&#8217;m sixty-six, Australian, and I live in \u0110\u00e0 L\u1ea1t \u2014 a small city in the Vietnamese highlands where the temperature behaves itself and the coffee is taken seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I write about neurodivergence, cognitive fatigue, the post-COVID nervous system, and the gap between what culture tells us wellbeing should look like and what it actually feels like to be a human in a body that has opinions of its own. I came to my own AuDHD diagnosis at sixty-six, after several decades of being treated for the wrong thing. That experience informs most of what I publish now, though it&#8217;s not the only thing I write about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">If you&#8217;re looking for the writing, it lives in three places. The longer essays are at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mindblownpsychology.com\/\">mindblownpsychology.com<\/a>. The midweek and weekend pieces are at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/quiethalf.com\/\"><em>The Quiet Half<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;on Substack \u2014 free, twice a week, with a paid tier that includes the full book library. The books themselves are below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">If you&#8217;re looking for me \u2014 to ask a question, talk about something, or work together \u2014 the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/leehopkins.com\/vi\/contact-me\/\">contact page<\/a>&nbsp;is the place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">If you want the longer version of who I am and how I got here, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/leehopkins.com\/vi\/about\/\">about page<\/a>&nbsp;has it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The books<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Forty-something at last count, across psychology, neurodivergence, memoir, and a nine-book fiction series set in the streets and coffee shops of \u0110\u00e0 L\u1ea1t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/stores\/author\/B085DDR844\/allbooks\">Browse the full library on Amazon \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Paid subscribers to <a href=\"http:\/\/quiethalf.com\">The Quiet Half<\/a> get the entire library included at US$90 a year, which works out to roughly two dollars a book if you only read half of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">If you&#8217;d rather just read something<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The most recent essays at <a href=\"http:\/\/mindblownpsychology.com\/\">mindblownpsychology.com<\/a> tend to be the best place to start. 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