I have always been a victim of aversion to happiness-cherophobia. Every time I am happy, I get a psychic feeling that happiness presage sadness, depression and desolation. I have never celebrated success, friendship, luck or good health, I have always been having fear that with time, these things will be taken away from me, and strip me of my peace of mind, calmness and well-being. This has caused me pain, solitude and anxiety. As a result, my professional career has suffered, and I have not been delivering my services at work as per expectations. I have not been sharing ideas with my workmates. This has ultimately led to poor decision making and failure to achieve timely company goals and objectives. To help unchain myself from cherophobia, I invited my supervisor to share my adversity and discuss the ramifications that this issue has on my career path, ranging from delayed achievements, withdrawal and solitude, poor decision making and inability to concentrate at work.
From the discussion, my advisor commended me for opening up and sharing my suffering and promised to keep information we discussed confidential. He advised that the company is a place I can turn to whenever I need help, and it will always accord me any assistance. He narrated his struggle with depression and how the company offered him assistance towards his recovery. He offered resources for my counselling and day offs for my counselling session. Concerning my performance at work, he offered to reduce my workload and asked that I should strive to achieve set goals and expectations within time, and to work with co-workers, as it boosts unity and promote sharing of ideas, knowledge and skills, and ultimately increase output of the company.
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From the discussion, I learnt that the company I am employed in cares for its employees, and that it’s ready to offer solutions to problems employees go through. As it pertains me, I learned that sharing my suffering eased the pain I was going through, that the company was there to listen to me. I also learned to steward unity and increase productivity, I have to overcome my own unsociable attitude and share ideas and learn from co-workers.
I discovered that people identify with situations that cause suffering to others, and by sharing, pooling of experience and resources can help in ameliorating such situations, and promote well-being of individuals.
Sharing my journey with cherophobia and depression was the most difficult part. Stigma arising from such situations of depression are common among people. I was afraid of facing stigma from co-workers. Although it felt uneasy sharing, the whole experience helped me. My workload was reduced, and I can now concentrate on the few tasks that I have to perform. The session also helped me in getting resources for counselling.
