By: Blonde Two
This blog post is especially for Blonde One who is particularly gifted at smiling her way through most of life’s frustrations and difficulties. You have to know her very well to recognise when her grin is fixed and hiding other emotions. She has told you before about one of the games that she plays with Little-Miss-Blonde; it is called Pollyanna, is named after the character in a book of the same name and involves finding something positive to say about all things horrid. I was delighted, yesterday evening, to find out that there is a real-life medical condition called “Pollyanna Syndrome”.
Pollyanna Syndrome is defined as being when someone is blindly or foolishly optimistic, almost delusional. Although Blonde One is very good at her game, she is also very good at worrying which suggests to me that she does not have Pollyanna Syndrome. This conclusion left me wondering which other medical conditions have been named after works of literature. Below are a few truths and a few Blondisms – see if you can work out which is which:
Narnia Syndrome – with which the sufferer has a compulsive desire to hide in wardrobes and eat snow.
Alice in Wonderland Syndrome – with which the sufferer sees things in all of the wrong sizes (yes, this does include body parts!)
Julius Syndrome – with which the sufferer thinks that everyone is trying to stab him in the back and refuses to come out during the month of March.
Dorian Grey Syndrome – with which the sufferer struggles with signs of ageing and wears make-up at inappropriate times.
Baskerville Syndrome – with which the sufferer has a compulsive urge to walk across boggy ground in dark and misty weather.
How about adding another: The Napoleon Syndrome. Which I leave you to define and to reflect on.
Julie Andrews syndrome- where the person feels the compulsion to sing for every different circumstance that comes up
Think I have that too!!!!
… and me. Poor old B1 can’t tell if it is “scared singing” or “happy singing”!
Oi! Less of the old!
Is that what I am suffering from? People at work have been rather perturbed by my overly cheerful manner this week, in what has mostly been a very stressful time since Christmas! I said I’d got to the point where I wasn’t going to let it get me down anymore, but I think the reality is that is was merely “happy syndrome” (the opposite of sun deficient “sad syndrome”) easily triggered by actually seeing the sun on more than one occasion this week and even venturing out into daylight!!!! I now seem to be suffering a case of “Baskerville syndrome” triggered by my imminent hospital appointment when hopefully I am given the all clear to return to all mad sporty activities and bog jumping activities I enjoy!!!!
You saw daylight?!? The Blondes were so shocked yesterday to leave in the light that we came back again until it was dark! I think the “fixed grin” is a tool of our trade!
Attenborough Syndrome in which the sufferer feels compelled to sit in the nearest marsh and watch birds.
P.S. It is Big Garden Birdwatch Saturday tomorrow.
That sounds like a lovely syndrome – how can I catch it!
If you can wait until next year’s Big Garden Bird Watch. you could begin by sitting in a garden pond to count birds?
A compulsive urge to hide one’s hand inside ones clothing?
no, it is a megalomanical compuusion to stand on two legs when nature intended you to use four