Medicos are fond of acronyms and mnemonics. This starts in their college days in an effort to remember the names of myriad nerves and blood vessels and carries on through their medical practice.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
One popular mnemonic to remember the 12 cranial nerves ..
Ooh, Ooh, Ooh, to touch and feel very good velvet. Such heaven!
There are more explicit versions for this. I didn’t make them up. Ask Google!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The term DABDA<\/strong> was coined by Dr Elizabeth Kubler Ross to study how people cope up with approaching death.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n She divided the process into five distinct stages , Denial<\/strong> , Anger<\/strong>, Bargain<\/strong>, Depression<\/strong> and Acceptance<\/strong>.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Later, psychologists have found that these stages apply to almost any problem faced by a human being. The trigger could be a bank statement showing low balance or your child’s mark-sheet showing poor performance. Or it could be lab report showing high sugar-levels. I can’t count the number of times I have blamed my (blood pressure)BP instrument for showing high BP. This attitude only resulted in the BP shooting further up.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n The first reaction is invariably denial. Some people would rush to the banker or the teacher that there was something wrong with the report ; some serious error in arithmetic, may be.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Once it is seen that there is nothing wrong with the calculations, the next stage starts. There is anger ; anger at anybody who could be blamed. If it is about the child’s report card, the parents may blame each other, the teacher, the noisy neighborhood or even Mark Zuckerberg for the effect of Instagram on children.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n The third stage is bargain. One is prepared to negotiate with rewards and punishments.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n The fourth stage is depression. When it dawns on the person that the problem was there and one has to confront it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n The final stage is acceptance , one that brings calmness. Then one does what can be done to alleviate the problem and accepts that which cannot be altered.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Over the years , I have seen this process playing out\u00a0 in myself and in others over many issues.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Here’s a recent happening that made me recall DABDA .<\/p>\r\n Observing an overflow of a sewage tank onto the road, I brought it to the notice of the concerned housing society.<\/p>\r\n The first reaction was that it was just rain water and was not sewage water at all.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Subsequently, everyone was blamed for various acts of commissions and omissions that resulted in damage to their well laid out overflow pipe line. If it was just rain water flowing on the street, why bring in the issue of damage to overflow pipe?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n These stages often overlap. Even while hovering between denial and anger the third stage also kicked in. We’ll pump out the water but you make your drains. This was followed by some ugly veiled threats that the road itself could be blocked .<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Why do I analyse? The problem does not go away by mere analysis, but understanding helps calm the mind.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Whatever be, the first step to solving any problem is acceptance that there was a problem and that noone else but you could solve it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Thathasthu.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Medicos are fond of acronyms and mnemonics. This starts in their college days in an effort to remember the names of myriad nerves and blood vessels and carries on through their medical practice. One popular mnemonic to remember the 12 cranial nerves ..Ooh, Ooh, Ooh, to touch and feel very good velvet. Such heaven!There are … Continue reading “DABDA in Action”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":2,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1900"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1904,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions\/1904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\r\n