Viral Emotions: Who Do They Belong To?

2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43

Psychiatry today offers a bio-psycho-socio-spiritual model for examining the mechanisms that affect the human psyche. It is believed that in contact with an unhealthy mentally healthy person may experience fear and anxiety. A patient with a certain diagnosis is simply not able to control these emotions, and they are transmitted to others like a virus. The question is how stable and mature is our psyche to cope with what comes from outside. Staying calm is the basic setting from which the ability to think rationally, act and lead a fulfilling life is formed. The inability to control your fear and anxiety contributes to the development of serious pathologies.

Children also do not know how to track their processes and not be included in other people's emotions due to unfinished processes of forming the psyche. So, I remember a chilling feeling from elementary school. A rumor among children that a maniac has appeared in the city. My imagination, already rich at that time, painted terrifying pictures, creating inexpressible existential horror. Now I am wondering if this rumor was true or just another story of the yard about "in a black, black room." The effect is very similar.

I see similar outbursts of hysteria in various areas of life.

I feel in public places with the intensity of passions.

I see re-posts with a bunch of exclamation marks on social networks in an obviously exaggerated presentation.

I recognize such people in requests for psychological counseling in the manner of expressing their thoughts and talking about negative experiences with previous specialists.

If this is not a pathology, I perceive these people as restless children who urgently need to grab an adult's leg in order to come to balance. This is often the work of a psychologist: to listen, to calm down, to form the position "Everything is in order" and thus open up the possibility for a person to live on with qualitatively different settings.

This is an extremely important thing that an adult must clearly learn. The internal processes and reactions of other people are not our own.

Obviously, if we are talking about a relationship with a loved one, his condition will affect us. But what can be done in this situation is to maintain a sane attitude and a cold mind in an attempt to maintain.

What I observe in therapy is that people tend to be involved in the processes not only of those close to them, but of people completely unrelated to their lives, and not only are upset, but also live in this viral field. So, the phrase of an insignificant passer-by in a store or on the street can throw off balance.

At such moments, I recommend going into yourself, staying in your body and asking yourself: "What does this have to do with me at all?"