The Importance Of Taking Jake's Discomfort With Drama

Another complication is that depressed individuals tend to submerge, deny, or hide their negative feelings through acting out. This usually happens as a defense mechanism without the individual even being aware they are doing it. Throughout the treatment, the clinician will usually notice the behavior or response, and not bring it up the first time they experience it. Instead, the clinician will wait until they do it again to confirm the individual is acting out or speaking abnormally as a defense mechanism, without jumping to conclusions of course (Crasovan, 2014). Instead, the clinician will ask about the behavior or response and remind the individual about the prior time when they had done the same thing. Although exploring more deeply into …show more content…
Jake was still reluctant to take therapy seriously with his off-colored jokes and tough talk responses, but he was beginning to feel more comfortable discussing his problems with the clinician. Thus, the clinician randomly asked Jake how college has been going. Jake sarcastically responded, “It’s like high school but with better food.” It was apparent to the clinician that Jake was joking in order to try to change the direction of the therapy from exploration to just joking around in the session. Thus, the clinician went into a discussion about the food. It was then Jake discussed how binge eating habits and weight gain which he had developed when starting college. “ 'I dunno, I wanna lose weight but I don 't want someone nagging me about it,” said Jake. “Do you feel hungry most of the time throughout the day?” replied the clinician. Jake responded that he was not entirely hungry all the time. However, he would just binge sometimes. “When you binge eat, do you feel upsetting emotions, like sad, depressed, or bored, etc.?” asked the clinician. Jake responded that he felt hollow and empty. He continued saying he wasn’t exactly depressed, but instead he felt like crap at times and he did not know …show more content…
The author also hopes to display the negative effects that individuals may go through because of this disorder. Our hypothesis that Jake 's mood disorder was categorized in unspecified and was caused by his relationship with his need for admiration and the socioeconomic situation was in proved to be valid. With a helpful, sympathetic, and empathetic clinician and an easy and use of a non-strenuous psychotherapy, he was able successfully to cope with his distressful