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During my vacation, one of our employees was working alone in our store one day.
He suddenly started having severe stomach cramps and pain. He called his girlfriend, who came to help him, but he was unable to continue working. They called me to ask what they should do. I told them to go home and put a note on the door saying that we were closed due to illness.

However, it was almost impossible to stand up due to the cramp-like pain, which is why they finally called an ambulance after a few hours. But by the time it arrived, the pain had subsided again. Nevertheless, they went along with them. He spent the next four days in the hospital, where he underwent a thorough examination (including gastrointestinal endoscopy, etc.) to find the cause of the severe pain. After four days, he was discharged without anything being found. The doctors' assumption: intestinal inflammation.

When I got back, I analyzed the situation with him using the 5BN. In fact, the connection was quite clear and obvious:

About three months earlier, he (a part-time employee) came to me with the request that he would like to get a cell phone for 1,000€ through the company. However, this was disproportionate to his performance and the performance of others, which is why I refused.
This was difficult for him to accept, which is why he perceived the rejection as an “indigestible lump” conflict affecting the endodermal mucosa and musculature of the ascending small intestine. In other words, he desperately wanted this lump (the expensive cell phone), but did not get it.

Two months later, he received a raise from me—along with a few others. Until then, he had probably been in conflict the whole time, but the raise was finally a comparable chunk of money for him. Presumably, the extra monthly money was comparable to the cell phone he would now be able to afford for himself in the foreseeable future.
This was the beginning of the conflict-resolved phase. Exactly three weeks later, out of nowhere, the Epi crisis with the above symptoms occurred, causing the smooth muscles to cramp for four hours and leading to severe, colic-like pain.

This is an impressive example of what could have been spared him with knowledge of the 5BN during examinations at the hospital, if he had been able to correctly classify the symptoms as a painful but temporary and harmless epileptic crisis.