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WORLDVIEW: Holiday in sickbed? Like me, you probably have Leisure Sickness
Leisure Sickness was identified as a bona fide "condition" a couple decades back by Dutch psychologist Ad Vingerhoets who started researching it after realising his own illnesses only happened at Christmas and the occasional weekend.
By Alec Hogg
I got quite a wakeup call this holiday season. We gave it horns last year, so I was more than ready for relax mode after finally switching off the desktop computer. Unfortunately it was just as ready for me. The next day, Christmas Eve, delivered the mother of all flu viruses.
That saw me confined to bed on Christmas Day. Plus a few more moping around with an aching body, splitting headaches, a cotton wool head and rasping cough. Only once the fog cleared did it occur to me this was a bit of a pattern. I've been blessed with a body that rarely misfires. Except, it seems, on holiday.
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