![]() ![]() He grinds his teeth at night, and has a nervous eye twitch. He hates conflict, will ceaselessly mentally correct even potential conflict while he restlessly tries to sleep, or anytime. He is very protective of his 2 year old son, “over-parenting” him and diligently keeping him away from other raucous children. These situations are “the perfect storm” to cause a bad episode, and he described it as “pretty deadening”. There were other shows too, he worked on, that he couldn’t ethically agree with, and he’d feel bad for leaving his family life to go on set at a distance from his son and wife he felt he should be there for. In one case he felt like he was becoming this woman participant’s “protector” even when she was naïve about what was happening to her. A “not nice” coworker on the production of a “reality” TV show our patient worked on, would exploit the real-life participants, and thus create real problems for them. ![]() His last flair up involved not feeling enough confidence to meet the pressure and deadlines of his job, feeling like an imposter in his work, and he further tells: “I feel my guts when things are out of balance and stressful, last time, it involved a contract and a (co-worker) becoming not nice, and it hit me directly in my stomach, I get cramps, have to go 10X a day, really gassy, its not the best version of me, it was knocking down my confidence, nothing was really balanced.” His first flair up was triggered by bacon and stress. ![]() With the help of a psychologist he tried to get in touch with his gut, and he had “the image of a cowering boy, that needed my protection.” He also said of the experience, “I didn’t like the idea of talking about myself, it just dredged things up” In April of 08, a 33 year old male, husband and father of a toddler, who worked long hours in TV and radio production, told me of his irritable bowel complaints, which were at first being caused by stress, as is typical, but then had begun to worsen to the point of him feeling very emotional in a bitter and defensive way, then sad, after a painful flair up. ![]()
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