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Category: Health

Physical or mental health, I discuss them all. Sorry.

  • Plans for 2025

    Plans for 2025

    We’re a few weeks off 2025, but my targets for next year are simple – to be a better person.

    • Lose weight
    • Exercise more
    • Dress better
    • Be more selfless
    • Reject negativity
    • And just generally be nicer.

  • Why interpreting body language is flawed

    Why interpreting body language is flawed

    Maybe body language interpretation does work for some people. But it’s no-where near perfect, yet so many people use it and make decisions based on it. Damn it, I’ve even been sent on a course in my distant past to learn it myself.

    Indeed, during that course, I remember sitting there with my arms folded. The person running the course explain how arm folding showed aggression. Everyone looked at me. It wasn’t aggression. Unknown to me, at the time, it was an effect of my ADHD – if my arms weren’t folded, I would have been relentlessly fiddling.

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  • Social interactions: it’s not just on stage that I’m acting

    Social interactions: it’s not just on stage that I’m acting

    After a 4 year hiatus I’m back performing musicals. As part of them, I sing, dance (badly) and act. But it’s not just when I’m on stage that I’m acting in front of groups of people. As much as I seem to appear outgoing and extroverted, I’m actually not. It’s an act. And social interactions are actually really hard for me.

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  • Having Covid

    Having Covid

    I’ve done pretty well not having Covid before now and I thought I’d document the experience.

    But before I get started, I want to prefix all of this with the fact that I’m very grateful that I’m of a health level and hitting a Covid variant that means that my symptoms are far worse than many, many have had. This isn’t an ask for sympathy, as I know so many people have had this first worse.

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  • An embarrassing look

    An embarrassing look

    I’ve been suffering from a bad shoulder since the beginning of the year (it turns out that I have a frozen shoulder) and, yesterday, I had my first physiotherapy session for it. Because of the ongoing pandemic it was via video call.

    However, I should have maybe chosen a different room other than my home office to do it.

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