Possible interventions
- He could stop interpreting everything other people said to him as a personal attack and challenge his NATs with balanced alternative thoughts.
- He could practise relaxation techniques such as diaphragmatic breathing or visualisation to calm his body’s fight–flight reactions.
- He could learn to modify his actions, lower his tone and make his body language less threatening.
- He could express his feelings with greater clarity at the time and resolve potential misunderstandings rather than avoiding his anger and letting it build towards an explosion.
Because of the way thoughts, feelings and behaviours are all connected, any of these interventions would probably have helped. A combination of all of them might have averted Peter’s ...
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