Break the crisis
Each of us sometimes feels that her world has been destroyed.
Ronit Haimov Zilberman, developer of the "Ronit's Way" method, presents: This is how you enter a crisis - and this is how you get out of it.
Do not worry, everything will be fine
In collaboration with Ronit Haimov Zilberman
18/04/2022
Monday, 18 April 2022, 08:04 Updated: 08:30
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The meaning of a crisis is not necessarily negative.
In several languages this word has a positive connotation: in Chinese it means opportunity, in Greek it means decision and in the Bible it is linked to an organ in a woman's body, in the context of childbirth.
In other words, a crisis is not necessarily equivalent to a disaster, although it certainly signifies difficulty and significant change.
Ronit Haimov Zilberman, developer of the "Ronit's Way" method, presents the Webiner method (Photo: PR)
Basic Assumptions About the Crisis
1. A crisis is not necessarily related to mental illness.
It can form in mentally healthy people.
During a crisis, the ability to learn new patterns of behavior increases.
3. A little help at a critical point can be extremely significant.
For example: let a person make a phone call to his relatives.
Defense and coping
mechanisms Defense mechanisms are mental processes, mostly unconscious, that allow a person to maintain an emotional balance between all the forces exerted on him.
The coping mechanisms, on the other hand, are mainly directed at solving problems between the person and his environment and are mostly conscious.
People can be taught to do this.
How is a crisis created?
Man is in balance between the pressures of the environment and his coping actions.
This balance is unstable and any event can cause a person to reach a state of imbalance relatively easily.
If he has reached an imbalance, he wants to return to balance and in this situation there are two possible paths:
1. Realistic perception: the help of supportive support and appropriate coping mechanisms that help solve the problem.
Our perception of the problem is changing, we are learning to live with it, developing compensation mechanisms.
2. Perception that changes proportions: only evil exists, lack of support (whether because the person distances the possibility of help or whether it does not exist and lack of coping mechanisms. The result: an imbalance that leads to a crisis.
Defense mechanisms are mental processes, mostly unconscious, that allow a person to maintain emotional balance (Photo: ShutterStock)
Characteristics of Crisis
1. Cognitive Confusion: Loss of time evaluation, memory, orientation and ability to concentrate.
2. Emotional flooding: anxiety, stress, restlessness, fear.
3. Psychophysiological symptoms: tremor, sweating, vomiting, etc.
4. Lack of tools to deal with the situation.
Signs in children:
Children who have been through trauma / crisis, find disorders in three main areas:
1. Regression to previous conditions, such as night wetting and nightmares.
2. Fragile emotional regulation indicating post-trauma.
Closure, inability to contain the chaos, seeing the world in black and white.
The therapist's side The therapist
's main goal is to restore the status quo ante.
That is, to restore to man the illusion he had before he had control of the world - an illusion that man needs and without it he enters chaos.
Intervention in a crisis is an understandable therapeutic framework limited in time and aimed at treating acute problems aimed at restoring the pre-crisis mental balance.
Different therapeutic approaches - including cognitive-behavioral therapy, group therapy, and relaxation therapy - have different methods of intervention in times of crisis, but the basic model is fixed:
1. sympathy.
Unlike the formal role in psychotherapy, functioning in times of crisis must show sympathy and show a loving presence.
2. Assistance.
The difference from counseling in psychotherapy is that in a crisis one has to help, take part in actions and address both the emotional and the concrete need.
3. Stabilization on the patient's side.
Unlike the judgment, evaluation and examination that are sometimes done in psychotherapy, in a time of crisis one should advocate, be in favor of the patient.
4. Use as a resource.
The therapist's role is not to save, but to serve as a burden and teach the patient how to resource himself in order to create emotional regulation.
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