Existing Situation:
Having difficulty in making progress. Despite the attempt to conceal impulsiveness, his activities lead to problems and uncertainties, making him tense and irritable. (The Desired Objective, below, is an attempt to compensate for this and other conflicts.)
Stress Sources:
Physiological Interpretation:
Stress resulting from the effort to conceal worry and anxiety under a cloak of self-reliance and unconcern.
Psychological Interpretation:
The existing situation is disagreeable. Feels lonely and uncertain as he has an unsatisfied need to ally himself with others whose standards are as high as his own and to stand out from the rank and file. This sense of isolation magnifies his need into a compelling urge, all the more upsetting to his self-sufficiency because of the restraint he imposes on himself. Since he wants to demonstrate the unique quality of his own character, he tries to suppress this need for others, and affects an attitude of unconcerned self-reliance to conceal his fear of inadequacy, treating those who criticise his behaviour with contempt. However, beneath this assumption of indifference he really longs for the approval and esteem of others.
In Brief:
Disappointment leading to assumed indifference.
Restrained Characteristics:
Feels that he is receiving less that his share and that there is no one on whom he can rely for sympathy and understanding. Pent-up emotions and a certain egocentricity make him quick to take offence, but he realises that he has to make the best of things as they are.
Desired Objective:
Urgently in need of rest, relaxation, peace and affectionate understanding. Feels he has been treated with a lack of consideration and is upset and agitated as a result. Regards his situation as intolerable as long as his requirements are not complied with.
Actual Problems:
Disappointment at the non-fulfilment of his hopes and the fear that to formulate fresh goals will only lead to further setbacks have resulted in considerable anxiety. He is trying to escape from this into a peaceful and harmonious relationship, protecting him from dissatisfaction and lack of appreciation.
Ambivalence(s):
The colour choices do not suggest any particular ambivalences.
Approach to Work:
The colour choices do not suggest a particular approach to work.
Anxiety, on a scale of 0 (lowest) to 6 (highest): 4 .
Compulsiveness of compensations (from 0 to 6): 3 .
Wow, that seems shockingly accurate.