How to treat Willy Loman?

Anger turned inward results in depression. He does display qualities of depression and hopelessness. Anger turned outward results in verbal, mental, or physical violence.

He is an angry, abusive individual. Anger + denial + bargaining + depression = grieving s life was not what he had hoped for. S family was not what he had hoped for.

S career was not what he had hoped for. All these things seem to point back to decisions he made (or deferred, which is still a decision not to decide). Mix in a little dash of petulant "It's not fair!"

The only way to treat someone effectively is to get that person to acknowledge that there is or might be a problem. An intervention might work, or might drive a person further into denial, or worse, into full-blown paranoia. Loman is so far "down" that all he sees, all he focuses on, are the roadblocks, not the road.

I'm not a medical professional nor a licensed counselor, but I think that by engendering and appealing to a sense of hope, no matter how thin, treatment of the depression and grief might be able to begin. In this case, I think that treating for clinical depression via an anti-depressant would probably be the first strategy taken along with on-going counseling. Loman is so depressed initially that once he begins antidepressants, he would need to be watched for suicidal ideation.

Ideally, on-going solution-oriented counseling should be a part of his treatment and might begin to help him focus on viable paths instead of only focusing on the roadblocks to happiness.

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