Sheila experienced many conflicts including anxiety, depression, sexual intimacy, and relationships with her family. Her inability to enjoy sexual intercourse with her husband could be due to unconscious thoughts from her past. She also has a difficult time with sleeping and concentration due to her endless anxieties. These anxieties are coming from lack of confidence, identity and overall her troubled past involving her family. Sheila had to deal with being a huge family and also pressure from growing up in a religious home. She didn’t see her Father often and she had a poor relationship with her mother which could have been stored in her unconscious. It is implied that she experienced something sexual with her uncle which could be one of the biggest reasons why she was promiscuous, and then eventually was difficult for her to be sexually intimate with her husband. …show more content…
This case did not state what the experience was with her Uncle but one can infer it was some form of rape because of how she handled sex as an adult. The fact that her family was religious and her father working a lot could be a big factor in sexual intimacy and overall depression and anxieties. Sheila’s acting out stage during her adolescence could be because of what happened to her with her uncle, her unsolved relationship with her mother, the pressure of her being the oldest out of 10 children, and the distance developed with her father. At this point, Sheila had no sense of direction which increased “id” feelings meaning increased drives and self-gratification. Sheila was basically coping with her anxieties as an adolescent by using defense mechanism drug abuse, promiscuity, truancy, and poor academic