2023.07.28 – 0939 – Emotional Stress After Vocal Injury
Emotional Stress After Vocal Injury
The flip-side of emotion causing changes to the voice, is when vocal damage then affects you psychologically, perhaps because of:
· Sadness about the injury and how long recovery may take, if at all
· Stress about meeting a deadline, letting people down, loss of income
· Awareness that part of your identity is ‘damaged’
· Self-recrimination that the injury may be caused by something you did or didn’t do
Consider then, that the healing process may involve emotional as well as vocal healing.
Finally
Beware if you have been given a radio mic to wear that you turn it off when you want to let off steam to a colleague or go to the toilet. Many presenters[1] have been broadcast when in full flow, and in full flow.
[1] And even famously, a politician, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEReCN9gO14
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