NV is 32 years old, running his advertising firm with a partner and friend, SM for 4 years. in the initial days of career, they both left their hometown and shifted to different cities and had always wanted to come back home and start their own venture.

As they started working together, conflicts between them increased. They would get into arguments deadlines, communication and team management style, and other work management issues.

For NV, meeting clients’ deadline was of utmost importance. In order to fulfill his commitment, he would pressurize his staff and pushed them to work after office hours and on holidays too. Closer to deadlines, Nikhil would constantly worry about meeting the deadline and he would come down harsh on his staff. This would hamper the product output and strain the working relationships in the office.

NV would plan every task and yet would not be convinced about a positive outcome. He would more often than not be pessimistic and highly critical in most of his talks and feedback with friends and colleagues. SM was getting affected with this and he decided to confide in NV’s wife, MV. MV agreed with SM and also mentioned that he was recently diagnosed with high BP by their family physician. SM and MV realized that both of them have always known NV to be someone who over-prepared for the worst outcome. They both have to know about NV’s anxiety during college days. Citing incidences where NV would always keep his bike’s petrol tank full, expecting people to reach before time even on casual occasions, over preparation for exams leading to disturbed and scarce sleep and his anxiety during exam results would increase to the extent that he would not collect it and it would be MV or SM who always collected his marks sheets.

But off late NV’s tendency to worry and be pessimistic was increasing. MV and SM decided to seek help from a psychologist for NV. The family physician was able to convince NV to get help.

NV’s problem was effectively dealt with by his psychologist. He helped himself just in time, which prevented him from intense anxiety attacks and other physical health issues. He was given tools to relax and learned meditation techniques which helped him deal with his anxiety and counseling sessions helped him look at events in a positive light. NV enjoyed football in college. His psychologist helped him realize his long lost passion for football and encouraged him to join the local football club. This physical activity helped NV in many ways to channelize his energy.  His positive mental and physical health impacted his relationships positively at home and office.