If you’re my boss and you catch me in the middle of the working day, sitting at my desk, staring at the wall blankly, not having moved a mouse — let alone an extra-ocular muscle — for up to 20 minutes straight, don’t mind me. I’m practising niksen — and Dr Joseph Jebelli recommended it for the benefit of my mental health and overall productivity levels. Yes, this treatment is necessary to ease my “overgeneralised guilt disorder” — that’s OGD for short — and yes I will be getting a badge printed, but please for the love of God don’t give up your seat on the Tube for me.
I got my new diagnosis midway through Jebelli’s book, The Brain at Rest: Why Doing Nothing Can Change Your Life — and the bad news is that you may well have this affliction too.
