2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
Idiosyncrasy is a painful reaction, intolerance, a concept that has passed into psychology from medicine. Psychological idiosyncrasy manifests itself as a feeling of rejection, anger, irritation, as a feeling of impossibility to survive, to come into contact with an intrapsychic object (which can be both conscious and unconscious), characterized by a reaction of increased excitability.
Anxiety disorder, be it social phobia, agoraphobia, panic or post-traumatic disorder, has many supporting mental and physiological mechanisms that interact with each other. Idiosyncrasy is something that is overgrown with cognitive schemes, coping strategies, habitual behavioral reactions, which together form a disorder. This is the very core that generates internal stress.
Since we live in a world of concepts and relationships, our brain creates concepts for everything. He finds explanations and builds chains of relations for all the events taking place, including internal ones. For example, a person is afraid of dogs, in the past he had a negative experience with an animal. The dog pounced on him and bit him. He developed a fear of dogs. Seeing a dog nearby, a person begins to experience anxiety, thoughts arise about the possible approach of the dog to him, that the animal may be aggressive, about the likely repetition of a negative event. An individual conceptual picture of the relationship between a man and a dog is recreated. At the same time, idiosyncrasy is hidden under the cover of mental and emotional processes caused by this concept. If from the whole squall of the experienced phenomena of this person, at the moment of subjective danger, one isolates intolerance, then it would look just like: a) the brain's interpretation of this situation; b) signaling of danger by strong excitement, using neurophysiological and physiological mechanisms; c) reaction by copping.
Considering idiosyncrasy as a psychological phenomenon of rejection, one should pay attention to habituation, or mental addiction. Habituation is the continuation of the line of behavior without attention to the stimulus, the perception of it as insignificant. That. if a person is confronted with an idiosyncratic trigger and, in spite of the signaling system of danger, remains in contact with the stimulus, addiction occurs. Together with habitation, learning to react in a different way to previously idiosyncratic triggers occurs (not only in a physiological context, but new beliefs arise about an object that previously caused emotional arousal - "this is not dangerous")
A case from practice. The girl has anxiety disorder, an idiosyncratic trigger was identified, which consists in the inability to hold a gaze in a situation of mutual glance with another person. During exposure therapy, the task was to meet other people with a gaze and not avert it. Before completing the task, the instruction was given - “now I will face my idiosyncratic trigger. All I will experience is just bursts of neural activity, neural noise. To help, to refrain from conceptual processing of the situation, the girl used concentration on the breath, and detached awareness. As a result, habituation was achieved.
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