PTED stories (3 + 4)

Hard working Mr. S.*

Mr. S. was working for a big company. He was very much focused on his job and was rewarded a higher position. The next task was quite difficult and forced him to work day and night. He knew that a positive outcome was not for certain and so he continued working overtime but the situation turned critical (his boss played a role in this). 

Then he was called in by his boss who told him that if he was unable to manage the situation, he may better get a real’ manager. Mr. S. reacted with immediate anxiety and dissociated. He left the building but had to call his wife to pick him up because he couldn’t even drive anymore. He stopped going to work and got heavily embittered. 

Soon afterwards, Mr. S. started to file law suits against his company and in the effort of doing so consumed up his property and that of his grandmother (all this to no avail). He even planned to set fire on the building and commit suicide thereafter in order to show the world that he was treated very unfairly.



Shop assistant in a grocery store*

A shop assistant has worked for many years in a grocery store. She had a very god relationship with her boss and her colleagues. She had been working very diligently (even overtime) and took great responsibility. 

Then one day, a supervisor who controlled the financial activities of the shop expressed the suspicion that someone (she) might have committed theft of money. This made her speechless, she trembled and was close to falling to the ground. Her world shattered. 

However, as she explained later, this wasn’t the main cause for her embitterment and incapacity for work. It was the behavior of her boss who said nothing to defend these accusation. She thought they had a very good and trusting relationship, but had to experience that he (and her colleagues) said absolutely nothing to her defense. This made her break down completely. 

She left the shop, couldn’t work anymore, refused to even come close to the shop and avoided meeting her former colleagues. Her trauma happened all of a sudden. She had been very normal at 3.30 p.m. and was a shattered person at 3.22 p.m.


*For full story descriptions, see:  Michael Linden ‘Verbitterung und Posttraumatische Verbitterungsstörung, hogrefe Verlag, 1. Auflage 2017)


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