2 years, 7 months ago
How to treat Willy Loman?
How would one go about treating Willy Loman?
Factors to consider:
•Working in same job for many years
•Feels unappreciated
•Unwilling to accept help
•Denies any problem
•Severe anger issue set off by both large and small issues, as well as without trigger
•Often takes out anger and frustration on family
•Dealing with delayed "Midlife crisis"
•Unwilling to change himself, or even try
The first idea I (a lay person) cam up with was some sort of anger intervention. Wanna know what the Answers community can come up with.
BTW, you're up against Yahoo Answers at http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091004122009AA1F7qG
Factors to consider:
•Working in same job for many years
•Feels unappreciated
•Unwilling to accept help
•Denies any problem
•Severe anger issue set off by both large and small issues, as well as without trigger
•Often takes out anger and frustration on family
•Dealing with delayed "Midlife crisis"
•Unwilling to change himself, or even try
The first idea I (a lay person) cam up with was some sort of anger intervention. Wanna know what the Answers community can come up with.
BTW, you're up against Yahoo Answers at http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091004122009AA1F7qG
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M$1 Answer
Anger turned inward results in depression. He does display qualities of depression and hopelessness.
Anger turned outward results in verbal, mental, or physical violence. He is an angry, abusive individual.
Anger + denial + bargaining + depression = grieving
His life was not what he had hoped for. His family was not what he had hoped for. His career was not what he had hoped for. All these things seem to point back to decisions he made (or deferred, which is still a decision not to decide). Mix in a little dash of petulant "It's not fair!!"
The only way to treat someone effectively is to get that person to acknowledge that there is or might be a problem. An intervention might work, or might drive a person further into denial, or worse, into full-blown paranoia.
Loman is so far "down" that all he sees, all he focuses on, are the roadblocks, not the road. I'm not a medical professional nor a licensed counselor, but I think that by engendering and appealing to a sense of hope, no matter how thin, treatment of the depression and grief might be able to begin.
In this case, I think that treating for clinical depression via an anti-depressant would probably be the first strategy taken along with on-going counseling. Loman is so depressed initially that once he begins antidepressants, he would need to be watched for suicidal ideation.
Ideally, on-going solution-oriented counseling should be a part of his treatment and might begin to help him focus on viable paths instead of only focusing on the roadblocks to happiness.
Anger turned outward results in verbal, mental, or physical violence. He is an angry, abusive individual.
Anger + denial + bargaining + depression = grieving
His life was not what he had hoped for. His family was not what he had hoped for. His career was not what he had hoped for. All these things seem to point back to decisions he made (or deferred, which is still a decision not to decide). Mix in a little dash of petulant "It's not fair!!"
The only way to treat someone effectively is to get that person to acknowledge that there is or might be a problem. An intervention might work, or might drive a person further into denial, or worse, into full-blown paranoia.
Loman is so far "down" that all he sees, all he focuses on, are the roadblocks, not the road. I'm not a medical professional nor a licensed counselor, but I think that by engendering and appealing to a sense of hope, no matter how thin, treatment of the depression and grief might be able to begin.
In this case, I think that treating for clinical depression via an anti-depressant would probably be the first strategy taken along with on-going counseling. Loman is so depressed initially that once he begins antidepressants, he would need to be watched for suicidal ideation.
Ideally, on-going solution-oriented counseling should be a part of his treatment and might begin to help him focus on viable paths instead of only focusing on the roadblocks to happiness.
source(s):
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/depression/DS00175/DSECTION=treatments-and...
http://www.psychologyinfo.com/depression/treatment.htm
http://grief.com/the-five-stages-of-grief/
http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-become-a-grief-counselor
http://www.mahalo.com/grief
http://www.mahalo.com/depression
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/depression/DS00175/DSECTION=treatments-and...
http://www.psychologyinfo.com/depression/treatment.htm
http://grief.com/the-five-stages-of-grief/
http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-become-a-grief-counselor
http://www.mahalo.com/grief
http://www.mahalo.com/depression
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M$
Really good answer. Going to wait to see if anyone beats it. Probably gonna be the best answer.
Wasn't as interested in the suicidal elements, but they do all go together.