The client, Abby, talks about her grandparents around the 14:25 mark of the transcript. She mentions them in the context of grief and safety:
"I guess the worst grief that I've had to deal with is just the fact that like a couple of grandparents that I really liked are no longer with me."
You asked: "I'm really sad to hear that. And there seems to be a lot of grief in your life that you've experienced sometime."
This question prompted Abby to reflect on and share the grief experiences she has had, including the loss of her grandparents.
You start discussing grief around the 14:10 mark in the transcript, with the specific question: "I'm really sad to hear that. And there seems to be a lot of grief in your life that you've experienced sometime."
This video is a therapeutic session where "Abby" discusses her persistent feelings of being watched and that someone is "out to get her." She describes how this paranoia, which has been present for about a year and has intensified recently, impacts her work, social life, and overall sense of safety. Abby also touches upon past grief, including the loss of grandparents and the drift in friendships, as potential contributing factors to her current state.
Here are two examples of questions from the transcript that relate to the SOCIAL framework:
Time: 1:03 (63 seconds) Question: "and it causes a lot of problems because it's like even in like a crowded room where I know there's a bunch of people and it makes no sense that someone's going to like try to attack. I still feel like someone might come come to get me and I got to be ready for that no matter what happens." SOCIAL Category: This question relates to Social Resources (S) and potentially Abilities (A) in terms of coping mechanisms and preparedness. It addresses how Abby perceives social environments and the potential for threat within them, even when logically unfounded.
Time: 1:07:519 (approx. 67 minutes 51 seconds) Question: "Honestly, honestly, I feel like my friends are just trying to put up with me as much as I can, but they think that like I don't know. I feel like there's going to be a point of time where they're just going to be like, 'No, dude. What are you doing? Just why are you still so insane about this?' Like, you're like, you're hearing things like that. There's no one out to get you. Why? Why you so insane? But I swear something is there. It just I don't know." SOCIAL Category: This directly addresses Social Resources (S), specifically how Abby perceives her friends' reactions and her fear of alienating them due to her experiences. It touches on the influence of social relationships and the potential strain on them.
The client, Abby, discusses her parents when explaining why moving away from them made her feel less safe. She mentions that when she was with her family, she knew who the potential "threat" might be (her mom or dad), but upon moving away, the source of potential danger became unknown.
Specifically, she states: "I wouldn't really say I always felt safe with my family. Like, I don't know. I don't know what was so different about it, but it's just like I think when I was with my family, I knew who would be coming at me if was if I knew it would either be mom or dad and that's it. And like even if they weren't being like you too aggressive or anything like that, you know, just like I mean to check on me, I would still have some of those feelings of worry."
This conversation occurs around the 7:14 to 7:50 mark in the transcript.
You are talking about grief because, during the session, Abby mentions feeling a sense of "dread" and that her "life has anyways never given me a break." You are exploring these feelings by asking about potential contributing factors, and "grief" is a common experience that can impact a person's sense of safety and well-being. You are trying to understand the depth of her emotional experiences by inquiring about any significant losses or difficult periods she may have gone through.
After the discussion about grief and grandparents around the 14:25 mark, Abby connects this to her feelings of safety. She states:
"But sometimes I just think about I think about you know how kind of being around them was like a time I felt pretty safe and I felt like I would like eh no one's really going to get me with these people around me or like these people were like extremely important to me and now they're no longer here and I'm just really just Yeah. It's like I I don't think I can let go of that safety."
She then further elaborates on this around the 17:56 mark:
"So my grandpa died around like 3 years ago. Three years ago. And he was like the last like my grandmother had already died by like like four years back. Oh okay. Yeah. It was very really awful time in our family. That's probably where like some of the fighting really started in like some where the as for my friends we were hanging out quite a lot like around 2 years ago but like in the last year as I was preparing to move a lot of them were also had gone busy with their lives and they had gone off and stuff like that."
While she doesn't explicitly describe new symptoms, she links the loss of these safe figures (grandparents, early friendships) to her current inability to "let go of that safety" and her intensified feelings of being unsafe and constantly needing to be on guard. She also connects the time of her grandfather's death to when "some of the fighting really started in like some."
The client, Abby, talks about feeling safe (or not feeling safe) at several points in the transcript. Here are some key instances:
These instances show a recurring theme of her struggle with feeling safe and her longing for it.
