{"id":3983,"date":"2024-03-24T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/?p=3983"},"modified":"2023-03-28T08:27:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T08:27:43","slug":"illness-on-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/24\/3983\/","title":{"rendered":"Illness on Order"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A doctor once told me, \u201cOnce I decided to spend part of my working day at home so that I could make headway on a mountain of paperwork. I hung a \u2018Closed due to illness\u2019 sign on the door of my practice \u2013 and fell ill straight away. Yesterday I told my daughter-in-law about it. \u2018I know just what you mean,\u2019 she said. \u2018I fall ill every time you give me a sick note as a favour.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/sign-3431472_1920.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"674\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/sign-3431472_1920-1024x674.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/sign-3431472_1920-1024x674.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/sign-3431472_1920-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/sign-3431472_1920-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/sign-3431472_1920-1536x1011.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/sign-3431472_1920-456x300.jpg 456w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/sign-3431472_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">https:\/\/pixabay.com\/de\/photos\/schild-hinweis-holz-tafel-3431472\/ (28.3.2023)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The story \u201cIllness on Order\u201d illustrates how believing that \u201canyone who calls in sick must really be sick\u201d can result in real illness, and how pretend or inconsequential illnesses can develop into real ones. The story can also be used as a metaphor for mental and social blocks.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(From: Stefan Hammel: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/shop.stefanhammel.de\/startseite\/buecher-und-e-books\/fremdsprachige-buecher\/\" target=\"_blank\">Handbook of Therapeutic Storytelling. Sories and Metaphors in Psychotherapy, Child and Family Therapy, Medical Treatment, Coaching and Supervision<\/a>, Routledge 2019)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A doctor once told me, \u201cOnce I decided to spend part of my working day at home so that I could make headway on a mountain of paperwork. I hung a \u2018Closed due to illness\u2019 sign on the door of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/24\/3983\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3985,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3983\/revisions\/3985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}