The best response to someone who is having a bad time

The former LaLiga soccer player Pelayo Novo and Sheila Ortega, a student from Jerez who is studying the Intermediate Degree in Pharmacy and Parapharmacy, do not know each other and, nevertheless, listening to them, anyone would think that they have agreed to pronounce the same answers and pronounce the same tips.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
26 December 2022 Monday 23:36
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The best response to someone who is having a bad time

The former LaLiga soccer player Pelayo Novo and Sheila Ortega, a student from Jerez who is studying the Intermediate Degree in Pharmacy and Parapharmacy, do not know each other and, nevertheless, listening to them, anyone would think that they have agreed to pronounce the same answers and pronounce the same tips. There is no cheating, no previous dress rehearsal, but they do share a hard life experience, one of those that modulate your character, alter your future and make you see life from another prism.

Sheila is pure positive energy, optimism and the desire to return so much help to the world. She is a 19-year-old woman who can say that she has overcome lymphoblastic leukemia that she was diagnosed with when she was just a 9-year-old girl. For the Asturian player - who played for teams like Real Oviedo, Albacete BP, Elche CF and Córdoba CF- The change in life came after falling from the third floor of a hotel. He has operations, rehabilitation and retirement from football and, although he has managed to turn his professional and personal motivations into chair tennis, to get here he has needed to "train the mind, our motor".

Like them, many others have traveled -or are currently traveling- along that same path. That of crying and accepting -here the order of the factors does not alter the product- in order to let go. Something that requires time and the support of experts such as Ana Belén Medialdea, a psychologist specializing in brief therapy, a type of treatment that focuses on solving the patient's problem in the present.

"We don't know what to do with our discomfort, but even less with the discomfort of another," says Ana Belén. Because we usually face adversity from avoidance, rejection or fear, either to manage our own or that of others. We talked to this expert in the second episode of this podcast in collaboration with LaLiga on how to better manage our discomfort and learn to accompany those who are having a hard time.