In one of the articles I have already compared the body with the hardware of a computer, and the psyche with software. Loss of reason can be the result of organic damage to the brain at the level of "iron" - this is when there is an unhealthy spirit in an unhealthy body. I will not develop this topic here; much more interesting is how disorders grow purely within the mental environment - that is, at the “software” level.
The mental health is similar to the bodily one. When nothing hurts chronically and functions stably, health is ascertained. Conversely, persistent painful symptoms and functional disruptions speak of illness.
Mental pain symptoms are negative emotions. Their moderate manifestation is the norm; excessive is pathology. Everything is simple here. But the normal (without failures) work of the psyche is a much less straightforward process.
What is mental norm?
To be a bright individual, an adherent of exotic teachings and subcultures, of course, has nothing to do with mental abnormality. "Norm" in this perspective is just a way to fit into the popular patterns of society: its morality, stereotypes, fashion.
What makes a person truly insane?
And here the most obvious parameter of mental health that I highlight is the degree of awareness of reality, or otherwise -.
Losing awareness, they go crazy, and they take for reality the thoughts swollen to the phase of dreams. They lose contact with reality, sinking to the stages of absolute unconsciousness.
The same thing happens during normal falling asleep: self-awareness weakens, the feeling of one's own presence in life is reduced, the content of thoughts is blurred, but their figurative design flares up to such a degree of vivid brightness that, as a result, these dream-hallucinations are mistaken for reality. Reality itself, replaced by muddy dreams, is no longer realized.
Madness is waking dreams. Sometimes strong to soundness.
How they go crazy, losing their criticality
Another tricky feature of unconsciousness is the loss of critical perception, when gullibility grows towards everything that pretends to be reality - and the blatant incoherent chaos inherent in dreams is taken at face value, as if it should be so.
That is, with the loss of awareness, it becomes more and more difficult to distinguish between reality and imagination. Without the filters of criticality, the mind cannot discriminate and evaluate exactly what is happening.
Any life situation is suitable as an example. For example, right now, while reading an article, your mind is performing dozens of calculations. The aim to extract useful information, its comparison with past experience, attitude to the author, the general context of reality - who you are, where you are, what will happen next - a series of these fleeting thoughts, merging, creates you a more or less accurate picture of existence.
Now imagine how all this would happen in a half-doze state.
With reduced awareness, the ability to reflect what is happening in clear thoughts and put them into a whole picture is lost. Sleeping consciousness sinks into every thought, as if into a separate event. The understanding of the broader context of the situation is crumbling. The channel of perception narrows down to the realization of the simplest meanings. The reaction to events on the scale of adequacy and delusion tends to the lower divisions.
Each of us is relatively insane. And this is in the order of things. There is a popular opinion among psychologists that there are no healthy people in society. An admittedly insane is a person immersed in dreams only deeper in relation to his environment.
Character accentuation
There is such a term in psychology - accentuation. They designate bright character traits. For example, emotional enslavement, a weakened connection with earthly reality in conjunction with a rich inner world is called schizoid accentuation. The increased thirst for admiration, egocentricity and demonstrativeness inherent in artists are called hysterical accentuation. Increased meticulous pedantry, irritability, emotional callousness and a tendency to tyranny are attributed to epileptoid accentuation.
I will not delve into this topic. For details, refer to the search engines, and here I started talking about these bulging character traits in order to emphasize one pattern. Moderate accentuation is inherent in everyone and is considered a psychological norm. Excessive accentuation is already called mental pathology.
That is, when the character begins to prevail over the sobriety of thinking and perception, then the person loses contact with reality, and his mind is pushed around by the most pronounced hallucinations.
Admitting the truth
They lose awareness when they refuse to admit the intolerable truth. For example, a person could not imagine himself without "significant others", he lost them - and it was as if the whole world had collapsed for him. To preserve at least the illusion of the previous life, the mind can go behind the mind.
But the most popular reason for unawareness is the striving to preserve at all costs. For example, a man amused himself with his eternal "rightness" and special giftedness, but he could not show himself in action, and therefore began to cover up the realities with transcendental self-justifications - that very shifting.
When reality destroys self-deception, there are two possible outcomes: either to admit the truth, or to escape from it, plunging your head into illusion even deeper. Do you get it?
From the inability to recognize reality, they are forgotten - they literally fall asleep in reality. So a seemingly smart person can become dull in front of our eyes, or even go with a roof.
The ego is eternally tempted to play up its importance with whatever unthinkable rationale it can believe. A careful analysis of these rationales reveals that no real importance exists. You can be better and more important for someone, for example, for your mother. But not "at all."
They believe in delusional beliefs exactly to the extent that they are devoid of awareness. By lowering awareness, they degrade just in order to preserve and strengthen "valuable" illusions.
The main reason for psychogenic insanity is the unwillingness to put up with what is happening, resistance to the truth, preference for it to be forgotten in dreams, when a person, as if going into another space, goes crazy into the measurement of his own projections.
It is not easy to bring yourself to clean water, because lies are nesting on the territory of the psyche in blind spots, where it is not so easy to direct the light of attention.
No matter how sharp the truth may be, it is its recognition that increases the adequacy, clarity of thinking and perception.
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How not to go crazy? How to prevent mental breakdowns that bring people out of borderline states, how to stop a minor mental or nervous disorder that develops into a chronic illness? This problem is dealt with by specialists from many countries of the world, while the number of "conditionally sick" is constantly growing from year to year. And this does not depend on the climate, or on the place of residence, or on the state of health care or on the level of well-being of the population. UNESCO data show that the proportion of people suffering from mental illness in all developed countries is brought more people than the combined patients with cardiovascular diseases, cancer and tuberculosis.
The first of them says that the psyche can be strengthened in almost the same way as the body, so you must always be ready for trouble and at the same time do not become pessimists. How can I learn this? The following psychological technique can help with this. It is necessary to imagine a circle divided into fragments. Each of the fragments should be given a title. For example, “my family”, “my home”, “my job”, “money”, “my career”. In general, a person should think and decide what is important in this life and what constitutes his system of values.
Now you should mentally remove this or that fragment. For example, a person has lost a large amount of money or lost his job. These “fragments” of the personality have suffered enormous damage, but after all, everything else remains, and for the sake of this everything else is worth living. If you go on about your emotions, then a completely rash act in a state of passion can harm, first of all, the person himself. Therefore, it is important for an individual to try to be above troubles and not allow himself to be isolated on one thing. At the same time, one must realize that this does not mean external calm, but a real internal conviction in the personal ability to cope with the situation. This can be achieved by constant psychological training. To do this, you must try to mentally in your head "replay" the upcoming event, to determine your attitude towards it, as well as the order of actions. This will allow you to avoid many problems in the future and build resilience to life's difficult collisions.
You can often hear from people when, in the hustle and bustle of life, they repeat: "It seems to me that I am losing my mind." Why is this happening? Very often the psyche is traumatized by the forced need to do different things at the same time, when it turns out to be unable to concentrate on any of the things.
How not to go crazy when there is constant haste, irregularity in work, lack of a sense of satisfaction from life, constant tension, exhaustion of the nervous system and, as a result, a nervous mental disorder occurs.
Experts in the field of emotional experiences advise people to:
Pay attention to the reasonable organization of work, as well as strict adherence to the regime of the day and rest;
Always do the most difficult and tedious tasks first;
Listening to your favorite music will help you not to go crazy with problems, it is desirable that it be positive and life-affirming;
Physical inactivity is harmful for mental health, so moderate physical activity will help keep mental balance normal;
For an unprepared person, the most optimal physical activity is ordinary walking, so walking in nature will be very useful;
Basic exercises from a complex of general physical training can also be of great benefit: squats, press, push-ups;
Moderate physical labor also helps to maintain normal mental health;
It is necessary to avoid conflict situations, stress, set feasible life tasks for yourself.
How not to go crazy with grief? Psychologists in this regard advise:
Do not stay alone with your thoughts for a long time;
Cry and give vent to your emotions, but it is better not to abuse it, since long-term experiences can drive you crazy;
It is very important to find motivation and try to pull yourself together, convincing yourself that you need to move on;
It is necessary to surround yourself with pleasant things, to bring positive moments into life;
You should go outside more often, albeit not for long walks near the house; fresh air will definitely improve your mood and change your mental attitude;
You need to let people into your life; close people or friends will try to somehow help in the experience of grief;
It is necessary to accept the help of friends, not to push them away, conversations on extraneous topics will help to distract from sad thoughts;
You need to accept offers from friends to go to the theater, cinema or exhibition;
It is necessary to try to gradually get out of a difficult psychological state, for this you need to try to smile and find positive moments in the little things, read your favorite books, cook delicious food;
You should constantly force yourself to do something and do something, you cannot lie around the clock, feeling sorry for yourself and go deeper into your grief;
If all else fails, the state of mind only worsens and it seems that life has lost its meaning, then it would be advisable to seek help from a psychotherapist who will help you not go crazy with grief and will again teach you to enjoy life.
How and why do people go crazy? Psychiatrists are unanimous in the opinion that until now no one has been able to thoroughly understand the reasons why people go crazy. None of the theories of psychiatrists can be tested, since for the most part one has to deal with sick people. However, in many theories, some points coincide. For example, this refers to a number of mental disorders that are not caused by mechanical damage to the brain or any somatic illness, but by the consequence of mental trauma, which is understood as any events that do not agree with the usual ideas and go against the formed system of values. And it is different for each individual, which is why the external reasons that lead to mental disorders and nervous breakdowns are so varied.
Feelings of dissatisfaction, anxiety, anger, frustration never go unnoticed. Over time, a person develops an increased sensitivity to external stimuli, and what was previously unnoticed is now a source of excessive nervousness. Slowly the nervous system loses flexibility and stability. Sometimes the process "shrinks" in time, and then a balanced and completely healthy person can immediately go crazy.
Similar cases occur with large, unexpected misfortunes, for example, the death of loved ones or a serious illness, the loss of a home or job, a betrayal of a loved one, etc. For these reasons, people can go crazy.
The reason for the breakdown of the psyche can also serve as a rapid transition from a normal and joyful state to difficult experiences. Such contrasts are sometimes overwhelming for the psyche. Excessive smoking and alcohol consumption can signal the presence of a neuropsychic disorder, so do not forget about this either.
How do people go crazy? Scientists have created a kind of scale for assessing stress. They determined, in conditional points, the intensity of the influence on the psyche of one or another event and calculated the number of points that a person can “gain” in a year without risking becoming a patient in a psychiatric clinic. But as life shows, under certain events, the critical value can be blocked in an instant. This often happens at the moment of receiving bad news.
Bad news should be delivered to people after preparation and should be done correctly. Each person perceives bad news differently, and each individual experiences a sense of loss, consisting of 4 stages. First, this is denial, second, this is an emotional outburst, third, this is humility, fourth, this is restoration.
Depending on the personality of the individual and the specific situation, these four stages can fly by in a couple of minutes or can take years. The person delivering bad news to the individual is at least present at the first stage, when the denial of what he has heard occurs, and it is important at this moment to approach this mission correctly. A strong, inadequate reaction of the individual to mental trauma often leads to reactive psychoses. They are expressed in different ways and depending on the type of personality, character and temperament. Strong-willed, strong natures, accustomed to independent actions, having experienced an unbearable mental trauma for themselves, often become uncontrollable, aggressive, dangerous for others and for themselves. More passive and calm people run the risk of going to the other extreme and becoming isolated on their intrusive memories and experiences of what happened. Often, against this background, they develop stable, suicidal thoughts or "withdrawal into illness" is noted, when the individual emphasizes his inferiority, inferiority, trying to evoke pity.
In the prevention of critical situations, the ability to withstand adversity, brought up from childhood, as well as throughout life, is of great importance. Having found himself in a critical situation, it is better for an individual to look into the future, but not into the past. A person should understand that any problem can be solved. An individual needs to think about how he can change his life, because while he is inactive, his problem is not solved, so it is better to act than sit and wait. Most people know what they need to do to change their lives, but often, apart from thinking about it, nothing follows. As a result, it drives them crazy, and people remain where they were originally - in their mental suffering.
Doctor of the PsychoMed Medical and Psychological Center
"How not to go crazy?" Have you asked yourself this question? In the fast flow of life, in the constant environment of people, in multitasking mode, it is so easy to lose peace of mind. A series of articles by Vitaly Oliynik is devoted to psychosomatic problems and the search for ways out of the crisis. He suggests looking for answers to the challenges of life in the Bible, the author of which is God, who created man and who knows best what works for our good. The articles in an interesting and accessible way describe the most acute problems of a modern person and provide valuable advice for those who do not want to go crazy. Read it yourself.
Paranoia
Every thought, every word and deed has consequences. Making this or that choice, we fix habits, "tread down" paths in the nervous system. Paranoia is a question of a person's interpretation of the phenomena of the surrounding reality. As you know, the same event can be interpreted in different ways for different reasons. And this circumstance keeps in itself hope for those suffering from paranoia - you can learn to interpret facts creatively! Wondering how to do this?
4 ways to deal with anxiety
It turns out that fear is not as dangerous as anxiety because it has a cause. The threat disappeared - the fear disappeared. Anxiety has no apparent reason. Fear sharpens feelings, mobilizes strength and prompts action. Anxiety paralyzes the will, torments, oppresses, causes mental and physical suffering, leads to illness, and sometimes even death. Anxiety will not help matters, nevertheless, many people are constantly worried about something. How not to go crazy and not drive others crazy?
3 rules for dealing with resentment
Resentment can be viewed as a fact and as an internal reaction. One person may be offended, but he will not be offended, and another may be offended, although no one offended him. Do you know that to be offended means to harm your health? Whom do we punish by being offended? First of all, yourself! Be stronger than resentment, fight it, following the proposed rules.
Healing negative thinking
Attention is like a searchlight in the darkness - you can see only what its light is directed at. It snatches out certain elements of reality, which ones depend on the person. This means that even being in the same situation, you and I will focus on different aspects of it. Your "spotlight" is not exactly what mine is. If your "spotlight" is usually aimed at everything sad or dangerous, then the picture of the world is woven for you entirely from misfortunes. But attention isn't everything.
How to beat phobias
Vasya, what are you afraid of in life?
- Dentists and darkness!
- Well, dentists understand, but why be afraid of the dark?
- Do you know how many of them can hide in the dark?
Phobia is a pathological fear out of proportion to an external danger or threat. There are many examples of phobias: fear of the dark - nytophobia, fear of an enclosed space - claustrophobia, fear of dogs - kinophobia, fear of flying in air vehicles - aviaphobia, etc. Scripture reveals that initially fear has spiritual reasons.
How to get rid of guilt
The typical cause of guilt is the violation of what the person thinks is right. Sometimes people think that they are violating some moral and religious laws, but in fact what they blame themselves for are not God's commandments, but simply human traditions and conventions. For many, the mountain falls off their shoulders when they discover that, in the light of God's will, they are in fact innocent.
Dealing with anger
Anger can appear when something doesn't go the way we want it to. Unfortunately, it often serves as an outlet for traumatized narcissism and a desire for revenge. Yet man has the right to be angry. How to be angry correctly?
Rest calendar for psychosomatic health
Lack of regular rest for recuperation results in a whole host of bodily and emotional distress. The Bible says that the Creator in His wisdom established, firstly, a calendar that guards psychosomatic health, and, secondly, created an environment that best promotes healing of body and mind. What is this calendar and what is Wednesday?
Learn to say no
The schedule of a person who seeks to satisfy all the requirements, expectations and requests of others is oversaturated. The result is an endless list of imperfections, chronic lack of sleep, nervousness, all kinds of health problems, etc. How can the Bible help in such a situation?
How to get over grief
How to help grief? What do you need to know about this condition? There are five stages of grief that most people go through. In order to maintain health and peace of mind in a crisis, it is important to remember three factors.
That shaggy ancestor needed a head for life insofar as he ate in it. Otherwise, for survival, popularity with females and a good career in the field of hunting mammoths, only a strong body was the key to success. By the way, it also received most of the blows of fate in the form of kicks from the same mammoths or no less shaggy brothers with clubs. It was like that before.
Now success with females, a good career and other joys can be had without any special muscles (may our fitness editor forgive me). The main tool with which you make your way to well-being is your head, but, unfortunately, on this path there is a great danger of breaking your head itself. Today, most of the blows fall not on the muscle corset, but on the human psyche, and on it the scars of the man are not decorated, but only disfigured.
According to the estimates of the World Health Organization, up to 20-25% of the world's population suffers from one or another mental or behavioral disorder. And do not think that if you do not have a friend invisible to the rest, you are not included in these black lists.
Behavioral and mental disorders are understood to mean all sorts of deviations from the boring norm - from innocent oddities to a specific "cuckoo" when you come to work in a Darth Vader suit in the morning and demand from the CEO to transfer the rebel base under your control.
And the trick is that oddities, if not dealt with in time, can eventually develop into complete destruction of the personality.
Of course, we will not replace your doctor and we will not make a diagnosis, but we will do one important thing - we will show the most obvious signs of problems with the head to the non-professional eye. If you find a symptom from our list (or even two), go to the doctor as soon as possible. And yes, by a doctor we mean not a psychologist, but a psychiatrist or, in extreme cases, a psychotherapist. Only they are the most correct and shortest way to patch a leaking roof. For now, read and think.
Symptom 1: mood is upset
In general, your mood is pretty strong. By the way, we mean it too, urging you to be firm to the end. But it happens that all of a sudden you, unwittingly, start to start, like a good car, with a half turn. Almost not your way - the mood falls below the plinth, and you not only do not try to raise it, but, on the contrary, continue to look for conflict and scandal. And in general, you feel that you are acting like a fool, but you can't stop. You can console yourself that this is stress, that you work like an ox and everything will pass by itself. And you can take a sober look at things: you almost certainly have a neurosis.
Neurosis is exactly what begins with constant stress (problems in your personal life, the death of a loved one, whatever), which you stoically endure one after another, and leads to the fact that from any little thing you go crazy. You will not have hallucinations, but the fact that everyone around you at the sight of your hysterics will twirl a finger at the temple is guaranteed.
Untreated neurosis with a high degree of probability will lead to complete disability, and the number of people who want to spend time with you outside of work will obviously diminish. Instead of them, your companions will be panic attacks, palpitations, trembling hands, unsteady gait, uncontrollable fears, sweating, as well as problems with potency, pressure and fatigue, which will come very quickly. A neglected neurosis, which is 10 years old, is difficult to treat, and you will turn into an intolerable and often deranged person.
Symptom 2: fashionable verdict
If mentally ill people had a uniform, it would look very elegant: a maximum of bright colors and incongruous colors and patterns - craving for such clothes suggests that a person, most likely, has problems not with taste, but with his head. Creative people, you say? You yourself know how many of them are people with weirdness (in other words, with diagnoses).
In addition, it is one thing if a fashionable artist dresses like a Christmas tree, and another if such outfits suddenly appear in the wardrobe of your programmer friend. Here, perhaps, we are talking about schizophrenia, the main manifestations of which are split personality and constant attempts to stand out, show off in front of the crowd.
With the so-called simple form of schizophrenia, a person does not yet have hallucinations and delusions. But strange and atypical for the majority of those around him actions in the behavior of an adult, the loss of previous interests or new, poor speech unusual for his age is a sufficient sign that something is happening in the patient's head. What exactly? The doctor must figure it out. Schizophrenia, as the most common mental illness, has many variations. “If you notice an illness in time, it will be possible to control it - and the person will begin to live and work in almost the same way as a healthy person,” says Aleksey Karotam, head physician of the New Clinic.
Symptom 3: "To your health!"
Psychiatrists are critical: if you like to drink, not everything is all right with you. “For 15 years of practice, I have seen only a few pure alcoholics who simply enjoyed drinking,” says Alexei Karotam, chief physician of the New Clinic psychotherapeutic center. - In all other cases, it was not a cause, but a consequence of other problems - for example, neuroses, depression, phobias. A person tries to relieve internal stress with alcohol, but in the end it only exacerbates the problem. "
You can force a person to stop drinking, but this will not get rid of the cause of drunkenness. It is like trying to treat diarrhea with cholera.
It’s even worse if you’re aggressive and unable to control yourself. The higher parts of the brain are responsible for self-control, and they are clearly not in order with you.
Symptom 4: the roof is going
A sign of a leaking roof, familiar to many, is a person's attempts to drive all the time in spite of everyone. 60 km / h in the left lane on the Moscow Ring Road and a complete reluctance to give way is a reason to think. The same reason can be a tense posture while driving, unless, of course, the person has just received a license and such a landing is not a consequence of uncertainty. “60% of new patients who come to me are constantly driving, some with hallucinations,” states Dr. Karotam. - It's scary, but we have no control over the mental state of motorists as such. All certificates are bought. "
Symptom 5: masquerade
All the signs are evident on the face - this is just about schizophrenia. The person has just been excited, but then fell into a stupor, his face does not reflect emotions and does not respond to the interlocutor's remarks, remains stone - this is a loud bell. Just like a monotonous voice, in which there are no intonations, but only "boo-boo-boo". People-masks are a clear sign that they have confusion and vacillation in their heads. You can play a game on the subway - how many masks are on the train. You can often see several in the same carriage.
Another sign is bulging eyes: if a person looks at you as if he has Graves' disease, then either you forgot to put on your pants in the morning, or he forgot about mental health.
Symptom 6: hereditary psycho
Schizophrenia is a hereditary disease, and you probably know that. Take the trouble to draw your family tree and check it for rotten branches: the more of these (even if they are not direct relatives), the higher the chances of getting sick with you. Consider, there are different periods of the course of the disease.
There is a hurricane, when a person reaches dementia in a few years. And it happens that a person will not get to him in his entire life and will only become stranger and stranger towards old age. Relatives will blame this on senile fads, but in fact the person will have a progressive, untreated disease. If he had noticed it earlier and received treatment, he would have lived in old age in a relatively sober mind and general health.
If you have crazy relatives or ancestors, the danger of going crazy amid stress, drunkenness, overwork and other circumstances listed in this text is much greater than that of others. And you should not console yourself with the thought that you are already over 30, which means that schizophrenia has bypassed you. It is quite possible that the disease is simply dormant, and with your rough treatment of the psyche, you will most likely wake it up.
Symptom 7: dirty patient
Unwashed hair, unwashed clothes, stale smell - a sick person ceases to take care of himself, and this is a sign of almost any mental disorder, even simple schizophrenia, even depression, even neurosis. A person is farther and farther from reality and the norms accepted in it.
Symptom 8: work is a wolf
An alarming sign is if work becomes your main source of emotion. You cannot get rid of thoughts about her even on weekends, and you perceive rest not as time for your personal life, but as idleness, trying to keep it busy with work. Outside of work, you are simply uncomfortable, you communicate with few people and more and more often hide in your office chair from other aspects of life. This is called escaping reality. Workaholism can be both a symptom of mental problems and the cause of their further development.
Do you think your salary, bonus and high chair will be your reward? Maybe, but in the end, you will become another nervous chef, whose quirks everyone laughs at. And why laugh if a man killed the lion's share of his nerves on the way to the top and now he does not need to go to meetings, but to a consultation.
A workaholic regime for any person is the way to the development of already existing mental disorders. A workaholic works in such a way that the body begins to fail. He needs rest, but such a person cannot get positive emotions without his main drug - work. At the same time, he cannot work as well as before, due to fatigue, he does not work out, and he tries to compensate for this by spending even more time at work. The body cannot cope with the load, the person - with the work, he is fired. The patient is deprived of the main joy, while it is necessary to look for a new job, but there is no strength or nerves for this. A downtime and excessive workload cause organic brain damage. The "aerobatics" of the workaholic is Karosi syndrome, an obsession that leads to death from overwork right at work.
Symptom 9: Chronic Philosopher
Philosophical works in large numbers drive you into a dead end, sway your psyche and certainly does not help you stay sane. That is why there are so many freaks among philosophers. You should not be overly carried away by such literature, if you do not want to, like Nietzsche, by the end of your life (early in his case) completely lose your human appearance. It is especially harmful to withdraw into oneself, limiting one's life to such readings and reflections on the essence of things. An overdose of philosophy is, by the way, called metaphysical intoxication, and it is just as harmful as any other intoxication.
An inverse relationship is possible here. Just as philosophy can be maddening, philosophizing can be a sign of madness. For example, one of the varieties of simple schizophrenia is "philosophical": a person constantly falls into lengthy, obscure discourses about the meaning of life and other disembodied things. He is morose and unsociable. The advice is still the same - to get tested before the disease turns into a more complex form. There is no sense in waiting out the attack - schizophrenia never stands still
Symptom 10: rituals
I forgot the iron and returned home. The iron is in order, but now you have to look in the mirror, and then go along a certain "happy route" so that the day is set, observe a couple more rituals - and then everything will work out.
Obsessions and rituals can be signs of various mental illnesses, but most often - a symptom of neurosis. “Neuroses are dynamic, they change - such a person, in any case, will eventually fail and break down,” psychiatrist Karotam is convinced. “It was not for nothing that neurotics were given disability in the USSR - at the peak of the illness, a person would not be able to work.”
Stress, nervous breakdowns gradually undermine mental health. In order not to go crazy, you need to strengthen the psyche, be ready for any troubles, and look at the world optimistically. You cannot shut yourself up, you need to act. Only weak people suffer, begin to get carried away with bad habits, do nothing. Each person should be above troubles, not allow himself to live only with problems. The main thing is to have inner strength, and not a mask of calmness. To do this, you need to constantly train your psyche.
Some people in critical situations begin to pronounce the phrase in their head: “I think I’m already crazy.” Most of all, the psyche is traumatized by the needs - to do several things at once, so it is impossible to concentrate on one important matter. If a person lives in a hurry, he has an irregular work schedule, there is no joy in life, he is constantly tense, over time the nervous system is depleted, and a mental disorder develops.
Experts pay attention to such valuable advice:
- Strictly adhere to the schedule, observe the daily routine.
- Don't forget to rest.
- Listen to positive, favorite music.
- Exercise, move physically, and avoid a sedentary lifestyle.
- Walk in the fresh air before going to bed.
- Try to do basic exercises every day - abs, squats, push-ups.
- Avoid conflicts, set clear goals for yourself.
What if grief happened?
For each person, a turning point in life comes when he loses his loved ones, relatives or finds himself in a difficult and tragic situation. At this time, it begins to seem that the person will not be able to stand it, but one should not lose heart. Pay attention to these recommendations:
- Never be alone for a long time, otherwise negative thoughts can lead to suicidal behavior.
- Cry, do not restrain emotions in yourself, just do not abuse, otherwise the experiences will negatively affect the psyche.
- Pull yourself together, find your goal, tell yourself: "In spite of everything, I have to live on!"
- Surround yourself with something pleasant, bring a drop of positive into your life.
- Walk in the fresh air as much as possible.
- Let friends and loved ones into your life, they will help you cope with grief.
- Do not refuse interesting offers - go to the theater, to the cinema, to an art exhibition.
- Smile at the world around you. Even in small things, find a slice of positive.
- Read an interesting book.
- Prepare yourself some delicious food.
- Do your favorite thing.
- Force yourself to move, do not lie for days.
- Do not feel sorry for yourself, this will further exacerbate your grief.
- Refuse listening to sad music, watching depressing films. Give preference to comedies, melodramas.
Attention! If the methods described above are ineffective, the problem is further aggravated, it begins to seem, life has completely lost its meaning, contact a psychotherapist.
Why does a person go crazy?
It is still unknown for what reasons the different develop. Some experts say that mechanical damage to the brain and somatic diseases are to blame for everything. Others are sure that mental trauma is a consequence of strong emotional experiences, tragic events.
It is worth noting that feelings of anger, anxiety, resentment do not just go away. Over time, a person is sensitive to everything that happens, subsequently, nervousness increases. The nervous system begins to lose stability, flexibility.
Accidents that happen unexpectedly are especially dangerous. For example, a serious illness, death of a loved one, loss of work, home, betrayal of a loved one. They lead to the fact that a person can go crazy.
Thus, the human psyche is sensitive to all external influences. To avoid serious mental illness, you need to constantly work on yourself, strengthen your character, and learn to be strong. Of course, it is very difficult to realize when a loved one is leaving life, but you cannot dwell on the problem. You need to gain strength and move on. Be healthy!