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Living in the dark: The mental toll of power breakdowns
Key takeaways
- As scheduled and sudden outages continue in parts of the megacity, residents say the strain is seeping into sleep, work, family life and mental health
- KARACHI: On some nights, the first sign is not darkness but silence — the fan slowing, the room becoming still, and the body beginning to understand before the mind fully does: the electricity is gone again.
- In parts of Karachi, where loadshedding is mostly scheduled but can still arrive unpredictably, residents have learned to plan meals, sleep, work, study and even arguments around the availability of power.
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As scheduled and sudden outages continue in parts of the megacity, residents say the strain is seeping into sleep, work, family life and mental health
KARACHI: On some nights, the first sign is not darkness but silence — the fan slowing, the room becoming still, and the body beginning to understand before the mind fully does: the electricity is gone again.
In parts of Karachi, where loadshedding is mostly scheduled but can still arrive unpredictably, residents have learned to plan meals, sleep, work, study and even arguments around the availability of power.
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