The following dialogue occurs between two co-workers.
Co-worker A: Hello! Good Morning
Co-worker B: Good morning! How are you doing today?
Co-worker A: I'm doing... okay.
Co-worker B: Okay? you sound a bit off... is there something bothering you?
Co-worker A: just a bit stressed, for some reason my boss seems to always nitpick at my work, nothing ever works my way and now im afraid of losing my job because of all this stress I'm unable to concentrate.
Co-worker B: I'm sorry to hear that! Is there anything he continously points out about how you could improve your work?
Co-worker A: Yeah, it seems like I keep missing information he had provided to me in the past, the thing is that every time he talks to me my brain just blocks and after our meeting is done I cant remember anything he said!
Co-worker B: Oh! that sounds like a concentration issue or possibly an anxiety attack! Maybe your brain's way of coping with anxiety is to shut down... Have you tried taking notes of his oral observations?
Co-worker A: You're right that must be it! I'll try and do it next time, thank you SO much for your help, I just needed to vent a little, I really appreciate it!
In this simple dialogue we can observe how a thoughtful question can really make a difference for someone. It has been proven estatistically than 78% of suicides could have been prevented if the problem the person was facing would have been acknowledge by an external person that was not directly involve with the situation, according to 2017 NBCI reports.
