Original poster: Un traductor (2018). 

Photo 1. Origin: Suspension of classes in the Department of Russian Language and Literature and the notification to work at another place. 

Photo 2. Surprise: The professor of Russian literature finds out that he will work as a translator/interpreter in the medical field. 

Photo 3. The stressor: Sudden change of work environment. 

Photo 4. First linguistic interpreting/mediation with the children of Chernobyl: The translator is mentally broken. 

Photo 5. From the classroom to the hospital bedside: Consecutive interpreting, psychosocial factors in the work environment, stress, and mental illness. 

Photo 6. Surgical attire for medical care/medical interpretation in patients without immunity due to radiation. 

Photo 7. Unlike the academic life in which he used to wear social clothes, the professor/translator now starts to wear surgical clothing. 

Photo 8. Linguistic mediation with the children of Chernobyl. 

Photo 9. Translator/interpreter adjustment disorder: Lack of mental preparation to deal with the situation in which he was suddenly placed. 

Photo 10. First contact with death in the "new profession": The translator/interpreter isn’t prepared to deal with death, grief and mourning. 

Photo 11. Difficulty sleeping as a result of the new job: Stressor. 

Photo 12. Insomnia. 

Photo 13. Use of sleeping pills. 

Photo 14. Damage to family relationships. 

Photo 15. Behavioral symptoms in response to a stressor: Use of alcohol as a way of coping with the new reality. 

Photo 16. Mental illness: Social isolation and depressive symptoms. 

Photo 17. Mixed emotions and feelings: Both anxiety and depression symptoms. 

Photo 18. Intense emotional suffering. 

Photo 19. Attempt to adapt to the new reality: Terminology searching to appropriate technical terms in the medical field. 

Photo 20. Development of strategies to deal with the new work through the translation of stories from Cuban children's literature into Russian.