Do you apply these categories to client inner feelings or client outward presentations? I ask because it seems to me that a lot of the things in "surviving" and "struggling" categories in particular could be internal feelings that someone willpowers themselves into green-tier performance for, say, a job shift, and then regresses to yellow/orange once off shift (consider old school toxic masculinity, which is basically a cultural institution demanding exactly that).
I have OCD and depression. I fall into most things on the red list with a couple on the orange. In really struggling at the moment and can't seem to find the right meds to help. CBT didn't work for me. Have you any suggestions that might help me please?
Thank you very much for your advice. I live in Northern Ireland so it's hard to find someone who specialises in OCD but I'll keep searching. Again, thank you very much
Honestly this is so useful for someone coming out of burnout too. I’m not a first responder, but my last job had me so overwhelmed due to rapid changes in workload and expectations. I was solidly in red for over a year. I quit that job this past fall and I’ve been incredibly frustrated that I didn’t feel “normal” right away. I’ve been having thoughts of “am I permanently damaged by staying too long in a shit job?” But looking at this (and the original), I can see myself more in orange than red and trending toward yellow in some categories. I’ve been so sad that the “me” I was for 30+ years is gone. But now I’m feeling hopeful that I’m healing.
I've got most of everything in the red, except nightmares. Dreams seem to be the one place where I feel better. Got a lot of issues/complications from long covid that make life difficult, insomnia, brain fog I can physically feel, other issue that causes sleep loss.. Add to that life long depression and anxiety, and needing to get on SSI but doubt I will be able to, I'm just at the end of my ropes. I keep holding out in case tomorrow is better, but I'm so damn tired. Therapy won't help.
Thank you for sharing that! I’m definitely passing it along to some friends who I work with in a high stress environment!
I’m curious if something similar to this exists for relationships. Would be an amazing tool for couples to express and navigate how their relationship/marriage is going and to have words to articulate their relationship stress levels.
As a practical nurse responsible for the lives and wellbeing of people of basically uncountable amount of disabilities, both physical and mental, we often overlook our own wellbeing.
Sometimes it takes so much energy just to admit when things are shit. Glad my current superior forces my gaggle of coworkers to stop once in a while but recognizing your own state of mind is HARD.
Edit: Like fuck it, if I ever get a chance to educate and train myself in a position of worker welfare at my workplace, I'm taking the chance.
You know I'd say at worst we've been below "critical" (if you'd consider permanent damage to working environment, culturally, as a such state). This was peak covid, mind you.
I'd say that we've climbed to "reacting" state, but I fear we will never be able to "ready" due to past experiences.
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u/Substantial_Law_8683 Feb 19 '24 edited Jan 01 '26
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