{"experience_type": "Current Experience", "emotion_type": "fear", "problem_type": "academic pressure", "situation": "Parent have been forcing me into something (a major) that i don't really enjoy. Now I don't know if I can continue for my masters. Would I fail?", "survey_score": {"seeker": {"initial_emotion_intensity": "4", "empathy": "5", "relevance": "5", "final_emotion_intensity": "3"}, "supporter": {"relevance": "5"}}, "dialog": [{"text": "Hi there, how is life treating you today?", "speaker": "sys", "strategy": "Question"}, {"text": "Hey. I'm doing fine. I guess really stressed.", "speaker": "usr"}, {"text": "I am so sorry to hear that. What are you feeling stressed about specifically?", "speaker": "sys", "strategy": "Question"}, {"text": "My parents are kinda putting a lot of pressure on me to continue my education. I already got my bachelors, and I'm ok with getting my masters. But I really don't know if I want to get my Doctorate.", "speaker": "usr"}, {"text": "I'm in a major that I kind of like. I'm not ambitious about.", "speaker": "usr"}, {"text": "If your heart is not in it then it does not seem worth taking the extra three (at least) years. Do you have a profession you want to go into?", "speaker": "sys", "strategy": "Providing Suggestions"}, {"text": "I honestly don't know what I want to do in life. I don't really know anymore what I actually like. My parents really pressured me to choose what they thought is best ever since I was young.", "speaker": "usr"}, {"text": "It's really hard to make delicious on my own now when someone has been telling you something all thought your years.", "speaker": "usr"}, {"text": "I hear you :( I've been through that too. It can be hard to break away and stand against such a thing.", "speaker": "sys", "strategy": "Self-disclosure"}, {"text": "I'm sorry you felt the same way. It sucks :/ I feel a lot of pressure to please them, and I'm scared to voice my opinion.", "speaker": "usr"}, {"text": "because whenever I try to talk to them, they always shun me down saying I don't know any better.", "speaker": "usr"}, {"text": "It sounds to me like it might be better for you to get away from them and form your own career and life.", "speaker": "sys", "strategy": "Providing Suggestions"}, {"text": "Yes it is very difficult to standing up for yourself if you're being emotionally bullied.", "speaker": "sys", "strategy": "Others"}, {"text": "I am actually very far away from them! ( a different county to be exact). But I skype with them regularly. Because you know parents miss you.", "speaker": "usr"}, {"text": "Ah .. that makes it both more complicated and more simple.", "speaker": "sys", "strategy": "Others"}, {"text": "At the very least you are living independently", "speaker": "sys", "strategy": "Others"}, {"text": "Do you have financial independence as well?", "speaker": "sys", "strategy": "Question"}, {"text": "But I still feel like I have to please them and make decisions based on what I say. I guess it's like abuse but it a different context. I always worry that what I do may not please them.", "speaker": "usr"}, {"text": "Have you tried talking to them about how you feel or do you feel that they would not listen to you?", "speaker": "sys", "strategy": "Question"}, {"text": "I do. It's kinda complicated because when COVID hit I lost my job and they were supportive saying they would help me out until I got back on my feet. They don't hold that against me, thankfully.", "speaker": "usr"}, {"text": "I have. Let me explain more", "speaker": "usr"}, {"text": "Okay I am happy to listen :)", "speaker": "sys", "strategy": "Affirmation and Reassurance"}, {"text": "Thank you : ) I went to therapy for 4 years when I was away from them. 2 months ago I got the courage to talk to them about how I felt. It was to a point where I couldn't function anymore. They listened and said they are sorry. And it was all good for a while until it seems like they went back to the same thing again.", "speaker": "usr"}, {"text": "It is great that you at least did get up the courage to approach them - that is a brilliant first step.", "speaker": "sys", "strategy": "Affirmation and Reassurance"}, {"text": "I come from a family who don't have a lot of ambitious in life. Talking about my cousins and aunts. So my parents really focused on my to be the perfect individual.", "speaker": "usr"}, {"text": "Ah that might help explain things. So they are pinning the hopes of the whole family on you because you are academically successful?", "speaker": "sys", "strategy": "Question"}, {"text": "My dad also regrets not being able to continue his studies because of my grandparents wrong doings. He had to leave school.", "speaker": "usr"}, {"text": "Academically and musically. IDK other talents I guess.", "speaker": "usr"}, {"text": "I wonder if you could suggest to your dad that he goes back to school himself rather than living through you?", "speaker": "sys", "strategy": "Providing Suggestions"}, {"text": "Like as a whole human being I should be perfect.", "speaker": "usr"}, {"text": "I hope I have been able to be of help to you but I am afraid I need to see someone else now. Thank you for talking though and I wish you all the very best in future", "speaker": "sys", "strategy": "Others"}, {"text": "Ok. Thank you for your time. Have a good one.", "speaker": "usr"}, {"text": "you too!", "speaker": "sys", "strategy": "Others"}, {"text": "Can you press quit first as it has to be done from your end :)", "speaker": "sys", "strategy": "Others"}, {"text": "Oh sorry. I thought I just did.", "speaker": "usr"}, {"text": "it can be temperamental :)", "speaker": "sys", "strategy": "Others"}], "seeker_question1": "The supported really did engage in the beginning. But they left early.", "seeker_question2": "All is good right now. I really like the system.", "supporter_question1": "", "supporter_question2": ""}