0888 – Studio Depression

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2023.06.07 – 0888 – Studio Depression

If it’s not nerves, stress or anxiety, it may be something else

Let’s not just stick with ‘feeling nervous’, there are other feelings and emotions which may arise in and around a studio and affect your voice, sometimes these are temporary feelings, and sometimes they can last a long time.

Here we look at other things that go on in your head, and how they affect what comes out of your mouth.

I am not a health professional and I would always urge you to seek personalized advice from someone who is, whether you are experiencing these emotions yourself or see them in a colleague.

Depression or PTSD

If you work as a news broadcaster you will be exposed to so much more evidence of the world’s problems than most other people: not just “man’s inhumanity to man”, wars, violent crime and so on, but also political tussles, economic worries, worldwide pandemics, sudden celebrity deaths and more and more. Day after day. And with many of these issues, the journalist sees or reads much more detail in terms of violence or hate than is ever passed on to listeners and viewers. Such ongoing exposure may lead to severe anxiety, depression, or PTSD.

You may feel these emotions, and others may hear them in your voice which may become flat and tired, or thin and strained, lacking resonance. You may lose confidence and concentration, tripping up over words.

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