Lu Jia was graceful without losing decorum.
When Lu Jia apologized, the visitor’s family quickly glanced at the small reception area.
First, they stared at Lu Jia’s face for a while, then their gaze moved downwards. Upon touching jewelry, clothes, and shoes, it recoiled as if electrocuted.
Her voice lowered a bit, holding tea in her left hand and fanning herself with a brochure from the Yan Nuo Center in her right hand, she said nonchalantly:
"Is psychological consultation really this lucrative now?"
Nan Zhubin looked at the documents, indicating this person was the visitor’s wife.
His eyebrows involuntarily furrowed.
"I heard you, directly sent a teacher from Jiang University’s law school because of a previous visitor?"
A voice suddenly sounded from behind Nan Zhubin.
Turning around, he saw a chin adorned with a handsome beard.
It turned out that during the time Nan Zhubin was observing, Teacher Hu somehow had approached him from behind.
This man had initially stopped Nan Zhubin from getting involved with Chen Ting and Wang An during a lecture at Jiang University.
However, this action was actually to protect Nan Zhubin as a Psychological Consultant.
After all, although everything seems fine from the results; in reality, any misstep in the intervention with Chen Ting could have made it impossible for Nan Zhubin to continue in the entire psychological consultation circle.
Teacher Hu admitted he couldn’t achieve this level, even if given the opportunity he wouldn’t do it.
It was for this reason that Teacher Hu had rather complicated feelings towards Nan Zhubin.
"What about this visitor? You won’t create some big scene to cure him, will you?"
Listening to Teacher Hu’s teasing, Nan Zhubin smirked: "Chen Ting’s situation was indeed special, normal psychological consultation isn’t this convoluted..."
Teacher Hu felt Nan Zhubin had a point.
After all, it’s just psychological consultation, if every visitor was such an extreme case, consultants would be collecting life-buying money instead of consultation fees.
"Is this a real case of {depression}?"
Teacher Hu craned his neck to glance at Lu Jia and the visitor’s family outside, and within a few looks, he frowned.
"Such guardians always feel bad for depression... what do you plan to do?"
Nan Zhubin made a gesture indicating not to ask further: "Let’s first understand the basic situation, also don’t know which data can be used. As for the rest... I signed a confidentiality agreement."
The general issues and appearance of visitors are inevitable for other consultants at the same consultation center, they just know.
But when it comes to the actual specifics, not even Shen Bing is qualified to know.
Of course, agreements are agreements, rules are rules, actual implementation still depends on the person.
Teacher Hu now knew about Nan Zhubin’s persistence with certain rules and shrugged, not saying more.
And Nan Zhubin also saw the visitor had finished filling out the form in the consultation room.
Thus he turned around, stepped into another consultation room, and began preparing the process.
{Depression} absolutely belongs to the category of {mental illness}.
Especially since the current visitor had a history of medication and consultation.
Although Nan Zhubin seemed brimming with confidence when speaking with Weng Pinting, upon actual reception, he still devoted himself entirely.
He first set out to conduct case conceptualization, forming an initial impression of the visitor from multiple angles.
For other first meetings with visitors showing signs of {depression}, it typically requires professional scales and inquiries to distinguish so-called {depressive mood} from {depression}.
This step can be achieved through scales, mainly the SDS Depression Rating Scale and SCL-90 Self-Assessment Scale. Although according to the materials brought by the visitor, there were clearly symptoms and treatment processes related to depression, Nan Zhubin, out of caution, still reviewed them afresh.
Anyway, it didn’t take long.
After confirming depression, the next string of information had to be confirmed, including the latest episode of depression, the initial episode of depression, and most importantly—the suicide assessment.
These would be presented to the visitor in written form first, and Nan Zhubin would verify them during consultation.
At this moment, Nan Zhubin was sitting alone in the consultation room.
After the visitor had completed the scale and questionnaire, there was a few-minute respite, during which Nan Zhubin quickly browsed through what the other had written.
Then he integrated this information in his mind, forming a rough idea.
The visitor’s tea break ended, stepping into the consultation room.
Nan Zhubin immediately looked up, displaying a natural and warm smile.
He braced his left hand on his knee as if to stand up, using his right hand to gesture towards the sofa:
"Please have a seat."
"Ah... thank you," the visitor replied after a two-second delay.
Nan Zhubin timed it so that when the visitor sat down, he was halfway standing up. As the visitor sat down, he smoothly sat down as well.
It perfectly expressed the consultant’s politeness and care but didn’t show excessive formality or emphasis.
Nan Zhubin combined his gathered information and began to scrutinize the visitor.
The visitor is male, thirty-six years old, just over 1.7 meters tall.
His cheeks visibly sunken, with faint dark circles, the whole person involuntarily exuding the word "tired."
When he met Nan Zhubin’s gaze, he gave Nan Zhubin a smile.
{Corners of the mouth lifted, eyes cornered as well.}
{However, the intensity is wrong, the speed is wrong.}
The transmission of emotion causing expression change happens quickly, especially expressions like surprise and happiness, where the peak is fleeting.
{But his smile maintained a stable level, lasting more than 3 seconds.}
The most notable feature of depression is being submerged in a depressive mood for a prolonged period, consequently blunting responses to external stimuli.
Don’t mention happiness, even emotions like anger and surprise will drop to a very low level.
Some depression patients, after prolonged therapeutic intervention, become aware of the burden their state imposes on those around them.
They might feel uncomfortable with excessive concern from others or simply not want to trouble others, thus learning to "perform" emotions.
{Smiling depression} is evolved from this.
These performed emotions might lead consultants without expertise in this field to misjudge, overestimating the patient’s recovery level. If the degree is severe, it might even result in tragic outcomes.
It is considerably challenging in consultations.
visitor in front of him, he evidently already knows how to perform "smiles."