About Neurotic Anxiety

Video: About Neurotic Anxiety

Video: About Neurotic Anxiety
Video: Anxious, Neurotic, OCD Personality 2024, April
About Neurotic Anxiety
About Neurotic Anxiety
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Neurotic anxiety (or fear) is a consequence of auto-aggression, when inside a person one part of it attacks another, and the other suppresses the response aggression. At the same time, the attacking part is copied from the external environment and acts on the basis of cultural stereotypes. Usually this part wants the best, but it turns out as always.

The part that is being attacked, as it were, closes the door to itself, blocking its aggression and denying it, or sublimating it into some kind of activity, for example, into intellectualization. This is how a teenager behaves when his parents get it: he closes himself in his room and cuts himself into computer toys, because he long ago forgot that his parents would someday begin to take his objections seriously.

As a result, a certain level of tension remains within the personality. This tension is anxiety.

Unlike neurotic fear, healthy fear is a manifestation of the instinct of self-preservation and gives the message "take care of yourself" in response to an immediate danger, for example, a brick flies next to you, or a wild or civilized animal rushes at you.

Unlike an internal attacker, an external attacker can at least be escaped. And it is impossible to run away from the inner. You can only give place to your retaliatory aggression aimed at not allowing various kinds of "marketers" who "know how to live correctly" to interfere in their lives.

But for this you need to be aware of this inner attacker, the fact of the attack, and from whom exactly it was copied, whose voice I hear in my head.

Inner freedom is freedom from an inner moralizer, this is the expressed "no" in response to interference in one's life, a completed gestalt of recognizing oneself as competent enough in one's own life.

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