Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
Hello. It's good to have you here.
Today we are going to talk about a case I had long ago.
It shows how stress attacks our weakest personality traits
and shows the worst part of ourselves.
Let's talk about Franklin, a 28 year-old guy.
He is short, thin and he looks kind of strange.
He lives with his father, and they have a close relationship.
way different from the one he has with his mother. He hates her.
During our first session he told me:
Ana, I am working with my father now.
He got me a job in the parking lot, looking after the cars.
We have five or six coworkers. But I don't know what's wrong with one of them.
I think he has it out for me.
Days ago he was with a few of them and they started looking at me
I was getting nervous and they were looking and laughing at me and I said: What's this?
The thing is, when is not for this reason is for that different one.
That guy, I think, just has is out for me. He won't stop bothering me.
Last month they changed my shifts: at night, in the mornings,
the next day one in the afternoon... Well, a mess.
I can't tell day from night anymore. I have trouble sleeping.
And I spend the day arguing with my father.
The one I actually love the most is the one I am arguing with at home.
I just don't know what to do, I'm not even hungry.
I don't know what I am going to do, honestly, so many people...
I just don't know.
Well, there is something else but I'm a bit uncomfortable talking about, but anyway.
For the last three months or so,
I've been hearing this voice again, after all this time.
It's a voice that insults me, that...
That's it, it says ugly things to me.
and also asks me to do bad things to others, like hurting them.
And, honestly, I feel very...
Very bad. I feel very bad, I don't know what to do.
Franklin also tells me
that eight years ago he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
He is stable because he takes his medication.
But this new situation at work is taking him to a state of chrisis.
What are the variables afecting this situation?
Two main factors: the shift change and the new coworkers.
This kind of people need strict schedules or else they become unbalanced.
On the other side, they are solitary people.
and dealing with different kinds of people tend to stress them a lot.
I am sure you also went through stressful situations.
They way you react depends on your personality type.
Franklin reacted with wrath. Some other kinds of reaction?
Depression, externalizing also, like a stomachache or pain in the neck.
Stress is an enemy that feeds upon our weaknesses
and keeps us away from happines.
Franklin was slowly starting to show his good side
and his great sense of humor.
His diagnosis was clear.
Now we only had to start working
on the areas we wanted to achieve better results on.
Three techniques were fundamental here:
Cognitive therapy on hallucinations,
occupational therapy with domestic animals
and last: raising body consiousness through dietary balance and sports.
Nowadays, Franklin is a new person.
He doesn't hear any voices.
He has a new pet grey cat, which is a main pillar in his life.
He takes dancing lessons and he swims.
Furthermore: he has become a great chef regarding healthy food.
This case shows how small changes in our life styles
can help us confront this stressful situations
that we have experienced in the past and that we will experience again.
That's all for today's video. See you in the next one.
And remember: be happy.