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Counselor’s Officer - Counseling Check-In, long time no see

Posted Aug. 6, 2020, 10:20 a.m. by Lieutenant Revna Edman (Counselor) (Jennifer Ward)

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Kai Oliver Kingstone (Chief Science Officer) in Counselor’s Officer - Counseling Check-In, long time no see

Posted by Lieutenant Revna Edman (Counselor) in Counselor’s Officer - Counseling Check-In, long time no see

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Kai Oliver Kingstone (Chief Science Officer) in Counselor’s Officer - Counseling Check-In, long time no see
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Revna listened while he talked. There was nothing wrong with his memory or awareness of himself and his place in the world and he sounded very passionate about his position on Atlantis. “So now the big question Kai, why would you need to test your sanity?” Her voice was soft and soothing but the question serious, but her face held the hint of a smile. She was pretty sure he was just nervous, as his file didn’t show a need or concern for his sanity.
Lt Edman, Counselor

“Well… it’s been almost a year and I’ve passed lots of troubles and stuff. A mission in particular got us stranded and for some days I got to live with a sharp pain in the chest. To be honest I never felt uneasy but the experience was something unique in its genre.” He started talking “But I mean, maybe I am just doubting? Sometimes I laugh that much that I actually think I am crazy ahah… Sometimes I find too much time to spend alone that I feel like I always talked to myself and never to a human being. In anyway I came to seek some comfort and also to get some conversation. It’s been a while since the last true one.” He smiled. Yeah he was pretty much nervous and his job got him pretty busy. Experiment after experiment a load of stress was upon his shoulders and as the counselor went missing for a couple of months by now, he felt like his duty was to see if he was right or his belief of being out of sane was just… an imagination.

Drinking the last bit of his chinotto, Kai looked at the empty glass in his hand and put it in between his sight and the rooms lights it shines like the sun.
“What do you think?” He asked the woman for some results.

Lieutenant Jr. grade Kai O. Kingstone - CSO

“I know that if you are worried you are insane then chances are you are not. Unless something has happened recently then the events you mension did not damage you mind. I believe however you are stressed over the events you experienced, which is natural, and going through bouts of either throwing yourself into your work or staying away from people. Both instances worry you. Would you agree with that assessment?” Revna Waited.

Kai sighed for a second, almost like he was relieved. Then after a 5 seconds pause (he did check the time, weirdo!) he looked at Edman an opened his mouth to talk “I- I guess yes, I agree.” He then scratched his head. It wasn’t a new thing to know about Kai’s behavior when stressed. He was pretty good at faking being ok, but when stuff got overboard like a man during a storm then he was an anxious man, a really really anxious man.

Revna nodded, “There are many things you can do when you feel over whelmed. This one, is fairly discreet. It’s called ‘grounding.’ It requires you to pay attention to each of your five senses. You start by telling yourself 1 thing you can taste. Perhaps you just ate and the flavor of it is lingering. You focus on that flavor and recall the memory, the sensation of it. Then 2 things you can smell. Next is 3 things you can feel or touch. You don’t have to go find anything. In this instance you are sitting on that chair. What you feel or are touching is the chair, is it comfortable, are the cushions collapsing making you want to change your position? Is the cuff of your uniform irritating you with a loose string? It doesn’t matter, simply focus on it. Then 4 things you can hear, and finally 5 things you can see. The idea is to totally focus your mind on those things, and really examining how they taste, or feel, or look. You repeat the process until you feel comfortable again. Do you think trying that would help you? We can exmine other techniques if you think it won’t.”

“I also think you have a need to get it off your chest. Now I’m happy to do that for you. You could also try making video recordings, writing a journal, sketching it, talking to a plant. There are lots of ways to get your experiences out.”
Lt. Edman, Counselor

“Yeah I know. For the last months I kept writing a diary, would you like to read it?” He asked the counselor playing with his thumbs.

Lieutenant Jr. grade Kai O. Kingstone - CSO

Revna nodded slowly, took a sip of her drink. “If you would like to share it, yes I will read it. Or if you’d rather tell me yourself you can do that too. Or maybe,” she looked to see how Lt. Kingstone was doing, “there are only certain things in your diary you want to share now. It’s important for you to understand that you are free to share as much or as little as you like. If you would like me to read the diary I will and then we can meet again to talk about it.”

Lt. Edman, Counselor

Kai took a PaDD from nowhere… I mean where did it appeared? But anyway, taking the “PaDD”, the CSO tapped some buttons, then submitted a request and the LCARS server did its fuzzy things. The diary in reality was written on paper but Kai loved keeping stuff backed-up and indeed some scanned formats were saved in his personal database “Here… you may give a look to everything. I mean I am not shy… except for some part like page 237 and 299. OH and page 255 especially!” He nervously chuckled.

OOC: I do not have the diary written somewhere but you can assume it has plenty of happy and weird stuff. But from the last 30 days, his pages are filled with stress-signals.

Lieutenant Jr. grade Kai O. Kingstone - CSO

Revna brought Kai a refill of his drink, then she took the PaDD. She quietly reads through the journal. She keeps her face neutral except for one or two parts that were obviously meant to be comical, and her mouth twitches slightly. Then she gets to the last thirty days worth of entries. These are much different than the laid back happy Lt from before. He’s obviously stresssed. The pages don’t indicate what may have triggered it.

Lt. Kingstone was there for help, he’d said so himself, but Revna didn’t like to impart false trust. She wanted to earn it, but she also didn’t want to stand on rank either. So no first names and no rank, rather an up front approach. “What happened 30 days ago?” She taps the PaDD with one finger. “Your entries changed and your tone of your writing did as well. What happened?”

Lt. Edman, Counselor

“Nothing. I guess yes something but nothing? Got some terrible news about my aunt who got injured during a terroristic attack where she worked. Since then I found working harder but I mean… I managed to do everything. Not even the experiments kept me thinking about my aunt. In the end she recovered but I do have memories of something that happened to me when I was younger and I always feared something like that could happen to my relatives. I think that might be the why.” The Lieutenant then shrugged “oh and thanks for the refill. If you want you can read those pages I said to avoid… you may want to have a laugh ahah. Not really good with women, that’s why dogs are better… I guess?” He smiled and took a brief sip of the drink. It has passed a while since he talked with a Counselor but the effects were pretty much immediate “Okay, maybe not day 255… it is too embarrassing, mate.” He blushed red pepper.

Lieutenant Jr. grade Kai O. Kingstone - CSO

“I’ll only read them if you want me to. That is always up to you.” Revna contemplated. “Have you ever talked with anyone, professionally, about what happened to you when you were younger? It is very normal for events that happen to others to remind us of our own significant events. It can trigger not just the memories but the emotions as well. Since you like to utilize writing on a daily basis I would suggest when you begin to think about your aunt or what happened to you, you write out what you are thinking and feeling. It helps to distance you from the effects of the flasback and it allows you to go back and analyse what you were thinking and feeling at the time.”

Lt. Edman, Counselor

“I honestly never did such thing. I think I’ll do some writing for that and geez it will hard. It is just terrible, I lost some awesome people that never had the chance to grow up and maybe join me in this mighty endeavor which is Starfleet. Let me tell you it wasn’t at all a beautiful experience. It was terrifying…” Kai kept drinking and drinking more. He was certainly nervous in that moment and as he laid down the glass on the table, the Lieutenant had almost some tears in his eyes. The incident happened his birthday party had him regretting to enjoy another party whatsoever in his life and indeed he haven’t done one in years “Mrs. Edman have someone told you that you’re a fantastic counselor?” He chuckled giggling a bit. It was perhaps just a way to distract from the real pain.

Lieutenant Jr. grade Kai O. Kingstone - CSO

Revna could see that he was becoming agitated, upset, by what he was remembering. She ignored the compliment for a moment though she smiled softly. He’d just taken several sips of his drink, this was good time to practice grounding, to help him process his own thoughts and feelings, to stop the fight or flight response. “Kai, tell me something you are tasting right now.” To help him she pointed at his glass.

“Now tell me 2 scents you can smell right now.”

“3 things you can feel, physically through touch.”

“Now, name 4 things you can hear within this room or within yourself.”

“And finally 5 things you can see.”

Revna waited for him to finish. “Do you feel better? Do you want to do that again, or do you want to talk about your memory?”

Lt. Edman, Counselor


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