NOTES:
Selective mutism
– Could not speak (mute) everytime he entered a social situation
– Hated school cause he was paralyzed by fear.
Completely different at home.
Anxiety was intense for him.
When he got older he learned to speak up. But still scared him.
Social Anxiety- avoided everyone except his parents and close friends. – He took a public speaking class in high school.
– And didn’t know he had to speak
Georgy ona haze (teacher)
– Each person practicing with one person and repeat it with other partners until everyone got tired of it.
– He then found that he wasn’t the only one.
– He started with a small group—-medium—-large.
Exposure therapy
– Ms. haze used that to overcome his anxiety.
– He faced his fears in small steps. This is called habituation
His mentality became different.
He then sought out all the opportunity to expose himself to his anxiety.  
Avoiding is the problem.

NOTES

• Yes- he focuses in action that are not normal and starts questioning.
  • Either drug, depression, etc.
• No-  he can’t read you properly without asking questions.
  • Ask questions and find a diagnosis
  • From that he can find out what the problem is and some of the solution but he cant find out why their suffering.
• He starts analyzing by asking questions about the patients past life.
• Mechanism are what causes the problem.
  • Same problem can be caused by different mechanism.
• Collaborative process- work with the patients to find a solution.

NOTES

• Experience of Vicarious trauma
  • Former content operators.  
  • This happens when people encounter other peoples truma.

• ER, Therapist, Journalist, Lawer, these are occupations are responsible for protect, serve, or even report about very difficult experiences such as face to face with life and death and about your beliefs.
• More exposure to other peoples trauma, leads to post traumatic stress even though it’s nothing about you.
• Their emotions and fear starts to become your fear.
• Content operators are like ER who are helping us from not seeing anything that make cause us trauma.
• They have to go through a series of very difficult content which can cause psychologically toxic nuclear waste.
• If they are exposed to it too much it can create server psychological impact.
• There’s a lot of pressure for them and their working in isolation.
• To help them
  • They should give them less pressure by eliminating competition.
  • Giving them more breaks
  • Creating a distance between the stumile.
  • Etc.
• The best choice its to work on those people and their care. Having not only a better payment, but counselors available, defusing/debriefing implemented in their work, etc.

• Vicarious trauma with Doctors.
• What other occupations do you think suffer from this truma.