Age 29-30 (6) Worked on the stress thermometer
3-month job training course in Chiba was quite a change of environment.
I took lodging in the dormitory area of the job center, which was the national headquarter of regional job centers for disabled, the Miyagi center was one of which I had gone to when in Sendai.
I was the only participant of the course who came from a remote location and lodged in the center. The other participants was able to commute from their homes daily.
Instead, several young people taking another course took the center for lodge. They took the job rehabilitation course for people with traumatic brain injuries.
The course also gave me the opportunity to learn self control imagining a thermometer in my mind and tell the "temperature" of my mind.
At the beginning of each lecture, the participants, all of whom were with developmental disabilities, worked on a worksheet. We told the "temperature" of vitality of the day, by filling in a thermometer on the form.
The main skill I learned through a thermometer in my mind was the "stress thermometer", which enabled me to measure the degree of stress by my behaviors and my inner feelings, and effectively communicate with supervisors at work or ones in daily life.
At first I made an anger thermometer, by classifying my anger by changes of my behavior, the inner feeling, and described in a way that "my anger is as hot as XXX".
Then I worked on a stress thermometer. I was instructed to look back on my behaviors, some of which was problematic, and causes.
According to the classification, I worked out with the scale of the meter. On the left side of the thermometer, I wrote the cause of the stress event, and on the right I wrote the reactions to and inner feelings about the event.
(Now I'm thinking that I could use cards each of which I write the description of a stress event, what happened to me, what I reacted on and what I felt about the event, and next I could arrange the card more easily to classify stress events.)
This stress thermometer is useful even now to communicate to notice my stress, fatigue and panic and prevent me from resorting to more seriously problematic behavior against a stressful event.
I took lodging in the dormitory area of the job center, which was the national headquarter of regional job centers for disabled, the Miyagi center was one of which I had gone to when in Sendai.
I was the only participant of the course who came from a remote location and lodged in the center. The other participants was able to commute from their homes daily.
Instead, several young people taking another course took the center for lodge. They took the job rehabilitation course for people with traumatic brain injuries.
The course also gave me the opportunity to learn self control imagining a thermometer in my mind and tell the "temperature" of my mind.
At the beginning of each lecture, the participants, all of whom were with developmental disabilities, worked on a worksheet. We told the "temperature" of vitality of the day, by filling in a thermometer on the form.
The main skill I learned through a thermometer in my mind was the "stress thermometer", which enabled me to measure the degree of stress by my behaviors and my inner feelings, and effectively communicate with supervisors at work or ones in daily life.
At first I made an anger thermometer, by classifying my anger by changes of my behavior, the inner feeling, and described in a way that "my anger is as hot as XXX".
Then I worked on a stress thermometer. I was instructed to look back on my behaviors, some of which was problematic, and causes.
According to the classification, I worked out with the scale of the meter. On the left side of the thermometer, I wrote the cause of the stress event, and on the right I wrote the reactions to and inner feelings about the event.
(Now I'm thinking that I could use cards each of which I write the description of a stress event, what happened to me, what I reacted on and what I felt about the event, and next I could arrange the card more easily to classify stress events.)
This stress thermometer is useful even now to communicate to notice my stress, fatigue and panic and prevent me from resorting to more seriously problematic behavior against a stressful event.
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