Why do people go crazy and how not to cross the line of reason? Vitebsk doctors and clergy offer their answers

Often in the media you can learn about people who have gone crazy or committed suicide. Why is this happening? In the modern world, our brain is constantly in a stressful situation. TV often shows programs that provoke negative emotions. There are almost always tragic incidents in the news. At work - the boss scolds. Nighttime sleep was reduced to a minimum, and the quality and frequency of food deteriorated. These are some of the common reasons why a person may lose his mind. How to live to old age and maintain clarity of thought? Why people go crazy, read the article.

Madness

People often joke about going crazy or losing their minds. Many people call a person crazy if they are a little eccentric, individual, or prone to strong emotions. It is also very common to assume that people who commit violent crimes are crazy. In addition, some great writers, actors and scientists have suffered from some form of mental disorder. So why are people going crazy?

Insanity is a psychological state where a person hears or sees things that are not there, or is convinced of something that is different from the opinions of others. Deviation causes the patient to perceive or interpret things differently from those around them. This condition may be caused by a mental or general illness, a substance such as alcohol or drugs.

How not to go crazy?

“How not to go crazy?” Have you asked yourself this question? In the fast pace of life, constantly surrounded by people, and multitasking, it’s so easy to lose peace of mind. A series of articles by Vitaly Oliynik is devoted to psychosomatic problems and finding 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 knows best what promotes our good. The articles present the most pressing problems of modern man in an interesting and accessible way and provide valuable advice for those who do not want to go crazy. Read for yourself.

Paranoia

Every thought, every word and deed has consequences. By making this or that choice, we reinforce habits and “tread down” paths in the nervous system. Paranoia is a matter of a person’s interpretation of the phenomena of the surrounding reality. As you know, the same event can be interpreted differently for different reasons. And this circumstance holds 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. The anxiety has no apparent basis. Fear heightens feelings, mobilizes strength and motivates action. Anxiety paralyzes the will, torments, depresses, causes mental and physical suffering, leads to illness, and sometimes even death. Worrying won't help matters, yet many people worry about something all the time. How not to go crazy and not drive others crazy?

3 rules for dealing with resentment

Resentment can be seen as a fact and as an internal reaction. One person may be offended, but he will not be offended, while another may be offended, although no one offended him. Did you know that being offended means harming your health? Who do we punish by being offended? First of all, yourself! Be stronger than resentment, fight it, following the proposed rules.

Read more: 3 rules for dealing with resentment

Healing Negative Thinking

Attention is like a spotlight in the dark - only what its light is directed at is visible. It captures certain elements of reality, which ones depend on the person. This means that, even if we are in the same situation, you and I will focus our attention on different aspects of it. Your “spotlight” does not illuminate exactly what mine illuminates. If your “spotlight” is usually aimed at everything sad or dangerous, then your picture of the world is woven entirely from misfortunes. But attention is not everything.

How to overcome phobias

- Vasya, what are you afraid of in life? — Dentists and darkness! - Well, dentists are understandable, but why be afraid of the dark? - Do you know how many of them can hide in the dark?

A phobia is a pathological fear that is disproportionate to an external danger or threat. There are many examples of phobias: fear of the dark - nyctophobia, fear of enclosed spaces - claustrophobia, fear of dogs - cynophobia, fear of flying in air vehicles - aviophobia, etc. The Holy Scripture reveals that fear initially has spiritual causes.

How to get rid of guilt

A typical cause of guilt is a violation of what a person thinks is right. Sometimes people think that they are violating some moral and religious laws, but in fact, what they blame themselves for is not God’s commandments, but simply human traditions and conventions. For many, a weight is lifted from their shoulders when they discover that in the light of God's will they are, in fact, innocent.

How to deal with anger

Anger can appear when something does not happen the way we want. Unfortunately, it often serves as an outlet for damaged narcissism and causes a thirst for revenge. And yet a person has the right to be angry. How to be angry correctly?

Rest calendar for psychosomatic health

The result of a lack of regular rest to recuperate is a whole bunch of physical and emotional disorders. 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 the body and mind. What kind of calendar is this and what is this Wednesday?

Read more: Rest calendar for psychosomatic health

Learn to say no

The schedule of a person who strives to satisfy all the demands, expectations and requests of others is oversaturated. The result is an endless list of deficiencies, chronic lack of sleep, nervousness, all kinds of health problems, etc. How can the Bible help in such a situation?

How to survive 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 situation, it is important to remember three factors.

Medical facts

Why do people go crazy? According to statistics, the most common mental disorders are:

Schizophrenia is a mental condition that causes hallucinations and delusions.
Bipolar disorder. People with this disorder may have episodes of low mood (depression) or high mood (mania).
Dementia is senile dementia.
Depression is a feeling of constant sadness and emptiness, including postpartum depression, which women sometimes experience after the birth of a child.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a condition characterized by the appearance of obsessive ideas and unpleasant thoughts.
A panic attack is a periodic attack of anxiety.
Neurasthenia is a disorder with increased irritability, fatigue and tension.

It follows that people who are considered crazy, in fact, simply suffer from the above diseases.

Symptoms

Why do people go crazy? What signs can be used to determine this condition? Most often, crazy people may experience various combinations of symptoms, for example:

Deviant behavior is deviating from socially accepted norms.
Hallucinations are a psychological condition in which a person hears, sees and, in some cases, touches, smells or tastes something that is not there.
Misconceptions Characterized by strong beliefs that are not shared by others.
Delusional thinking.
Anxious thoughts.
Obsessions.
Mania or insanity.
Lack of understanding and self-awareness.
Rapid and unintelligible speech.
Violation of the sequence of speech, for example, the patient may switch from one topic to another in the middle of a sentence.
Sudden loss of thought, resulting in an abrupt pause in conversation or activity.
Inexplicable aggression.

How to go crazy correctly or 4 ways of healing madness

If you're smart, you have no choice

if you are a feeling person, you go crazy.

When I started working as a psychiatrist, I saw my purpose in calming people down, now I like driving them crazy more..

More precisely, seeing what happens to people after taking antipsychotics for several years, I felt somehow uneasy... And at the same time, I saw miracles of quick recovery from such “barbaric” methods as electroconvulsive therapy... And in psychotherapy many years of “intellectual” methods that changed little and at the same time, a holotropic breathing session could simply revive the client (and the author). And the annoying client disappeared from attention for a long time...

If the basis of suffering is frozen conflict and disagreement, then the basis of healing is agreement (humility) and connection. Healing. A person is whole as long as he agrees. And when it begins to disagree with some part of itself or the world, then the part begins to disagree with the person and tension arises.

You don't have to disagree with something. You can attach great importance to something and ignore the opposite. And at the beginning there will be little tension. And this can manifest itself in mild discomfort. But the war has already begun... Attempts to strengthen something right (necessary) and suppress something opposite (wrong, unnecessary) will only increase tension and the opposite part. This causes stagnation of energy. (Or its unnatural movement). Discomfort will turn into suffering.

When connecting and returning to wholeness, this energy begins to be released in large quantities in a short period of time. This manifests itself more often in the form of strong feelings (with different interpretations by the feeler).

So how to reconcile opposites and return to wholeness? And enjoy the flow of new feelings?

There are four methods for returning peace . Or four methods of healing madness that are used in psychotherapy.

Trance (altered states of consciousness).
Love.
Laughter.
A game.

The fact is that an unexpected connection of parts of oneself or the world, for example, an insight or an anecdote, most often leads to madness, which manifests itself in the form of:

Trance (freezing, numbness, enchantment, etc.).
To a state of love (happiness, peace, acceptance).
Laughter.

And these states unchain a person, make him fluid, and he begins to play with fragments of himself and the world. And understand that everything is a game and each of us is either a player in someone else’s boring game or a creator of our own new games.

So, trances, meditations, altered states of consciousness... like healthy madness...

The unexpectedness of information leads a person to a state of trance (TS). Or a person enters this state in order to connect, something unexpected. In a normal “smart” state, he cannot connect this. Because there are no surprises in the mind.

The real world is richer and more unexpected than the world represented through the mind and words. The smoothness of the world cannot be expressed through the intermittency (discreteness) of words. Infinity cannot break through limitation. This leads to stagnation and accumulation of energy between the fluid, living, changing world and the frozen world of the mind. The limited Mind does not allow it. The world has changed, but the mind does not notice it. The unconscious sees and feels, but the mind persists and denies. And what is needed, simply necessary, is a brain reboot. And the person goes crazy... the mind turns off. With an unexpected message, states of “madness” arise - from surprise to freezing with a moronic mouth wide open. Or laughter. A person temporarily falls out of his usual state. At this time he is crazy. Or a fool. Or in a trance. This should happen often. If this happens often, it won't last long. If rarely, then maybe forever.

It follows that the need for trances (for “crazyness” or to be a fool) is the same as the need for sleep, eating or sex. It's sad that corporations capitalize on this need by selling alcohol and drugs. It is easy to put yourself into a trance with the help of psychoactive substances. It's difficult to get out. Normally, a person enters a state of natural trance several times a day. Discharge (reboot) and healing occurs. Words and mind disappear and the living world penetrates the raw archive of words.

I once worked as a receptionist as a psychiatrist and psychotherapist (and a narcologist and a neurologist, and whoever you work in the area). There is a huge queue in front of the office. I’m sick, I mean, irritated, angry at everything... A patient with schizophrenia, a disabled person of the first group, and you don’t have to be a psychiatrist to see this, bursts into my office:

- Well, doctor, you have a queue - you can go crazy!

I had a trance! It is also enlightenment (awakening, shock, etc.).

We all laughed for a very long time and there were no boundaries at that time - doctor-patient, normal-crazy... At that time everyone was healthy!

Integrity is restored. In trance (in “madness”), new creative connections arise, new ideas are born. And in a trance (in a state of stupidity), a reconciliation of such fragments of the world that previously denied each other can occur.

What is trance? According to M. Erikson, this is attention directed inward... it seems to me that attention can be directed anywhere, but it is held there for a long time. And he (attention) feels good there. And you don’t have to make any effort to keep it there. Entering a trance is like giving attention to something, merging with something, trusting something. You can surrender to the flow of the clouds, you can merge with the rhythm of the melody, you can float with church choral singing and all this will be a trance. Daydreams and daydreams are also trances.

Shamans unanimously ask their clients: “When was the last time you danced and sang?” Those. when were you in a dance and song trance? And if it’s been a long time, they begin to shake their heads, wondering how much and to what depth of trance they will have to plunge together with the client...

Erickson recommended that the client practice self-hypnosis. We can add that a person should have a lot of trances (self-hypnosis). He must be able to trust and devote himself daily to trance dancing, sex, songs, books, fishing, and interesting films. He must give his full attention completely. Now they teach various techniques of trances and suggestions. But this is not the main thing in Erickson’s practices. The main thing is that he knew how to charm... And you just have to charm and be enchanted... dance, sex, song, life should charm... Trust has been lost for many... which is a pity...

The world is falling apart into trances. People are grouped according to the methods of guiding the ASC. Alcoholics, drug addicts, body-oriented trances, holonauts, lovers of singing in a choir, dancing, meditating, etc.

Often the client is a person in a state of pathological trance. His attention is rigidly fixed on something. And he must be returned to natural trances. And for this you need to drive him crazy - surprise, charm, shock... Teach him to trust...

Trance itself can make you whole. Or you can give metaphors of opposite parts (problem and solution) and see how the unconscious reconciles them. Such masterpieces are created! The mind will never come up with such a thing!

Case from practice. Alcoholic N, ... a metaphor that gives positive alcohol - lightness, flight in the sky. The metaphor for fear of using is a cemetery. Metaphor of sobriety - sea, beach, peace. A metaphor that prevents you from making a decision - gray repetition, the sameness of gray days, black emptiness. A metaphor for what will happen if he continues to drink - a rapid fall from the night sky straight into a fresh grave in the cemetery. A metaphor for healthy sobriety is repeated trips to various seas, flights over the sea in the mystical night sky... He has not drunk alcohol for 7 years...

To be continued…

Causes

The man is going crazy. Why is this happening? The main triggers that can lead to insanity include:

chronic stress;
alcohol or drug addiction;
traumatic brain injury;
age;
constant failures;
psychological trauma;
loss of meaning in life;
social isolation;
loneliness.

There are many reasons why a person can go crazy. But they all provoke the development of psychological abnormalities according to approximately the same scenario.

First, a person accumulates negative emotions. He becomes irritable and tired. As it progresses, excessive sensitivity to what is happening in the outside world appears. After a short period of time, the human psyche loses stability. If you do not contact a specialist at this moment, the patient may have a nervous breakdown. This can lead to depression, mania, addiction and even suicide.

Why do people go crazy?

Mental illnesses can be either congenital or acquired. We should talk about a congenital disease in the case when the diagnosis was made at an early age, and the child inherited the disease from one of the parents. As a rule, a tendency to schizophrenia and epilepsy, and sometimes to alcohol and drug addictions, is transmitted at the genetic level. But still, more often than not, people go crazy not because of the characteristics of their DNA, but under the influence of external factors and life circumstances. And all the causes of madness can be divided into three groups: physiological and psychological.

Physiological reasons

Physiological causes of insanity include all factors that can cause brain damage, as a result of which the functionality of the central nervous system will be impaired and the human psyche will suffer. As a rule, the following reasons can lead to serious consequences for the psyche:

Traumatic brain injury. After experiencing trauma, certain areas of the brain may be damaged and neural activity will be impaired. The consequences of TBI in different cases manifest themselves differently and depend on which part of the brain is affected: in some, coordination of movements is impaired, hearing and vision deteriorate, in others memory deteriorates, and in others, schizophrenia develops, panic attacks occur, aggressiveness and tendency to hysteria, etc.
Effects of chemicals on the brain. The use of alcohol, drugs and certain medications can cause the destruction of neural circuits and disruption of brain function. Depending on which functions are impaired and how severe the brain damage is, a person may develop mild or severe forms of depression, paranoia, mania, neurasthenia, or another mental disorder.
Age. In old age, few people can boast of a healthy heart and blood vessels, and vascular disease is one of the main causes of senile dementia. With atherosclerosis and other vascular diseases, the brain does not receive the required amount of oxygen and nerve cells die, as a result of which the brain ceases to cope with all functions. Similar changes in the brain occur in Alzheimer's disease, which is popularly called senile insanity.

Psychological reasons

According to psychologists and psychiatrists, up to 30% of residents of large cities are constantly in a state of chronic stress, which is also considered a borderline mental state - that is, the mental state is no longer normal, but there is no severe disorder yet. Borderline mental states are dangerous because in their presence, even the most insignificant irritant can become the “last straw” and serve as a trigger for mental illness. But the reasons why a person finds himself on the “threshold” of insanity are most often the following:

Constant failures
Emotional burnout at work (workaholism)
Psychological trauma caused by an event that significantly affected a person’s life (experienced violence, difficult divorce, betrayal of a loved one, etc.)
Loss of what a person considered the meaning of his life (business bankruptcy due to a financial crisis, death of a child, dismissal from work, etc.)
Social isolation (loneliness and boredom)
Love addiction.

Whatever the reasons for stress, the mechanism of development of mental disorders is similar in all cases. First, negative emotions accumulate, then at a certain stage sensitization develops (increased sensitivity to stimuli), and after a relatively short period of time the human psyche loses stability and flexibility. If a person does not turn to a psychologist in time or does not restore his psyche on his own, sooner or later he will have a nervous breakdown, manifested either by constant hysterics, increased aggressiveness and mania (in choleric and sanguine people), or melancholy and depression (in phlegmatic and melancholic people).

Stress

Almost any psychological disorder, from various diseases to depression or addiction, is somehow associated with an increase in stress and anxiety. Increased emotionality does not allow a person to think adequately in stressful situations. But feeling constantly stressed or depressed is not a sign that you are going crazy.

One type of psychological disorder is panic attacks. In this state, people experience periodic attacks of fear or anxiety, which are accompanied by fear of death, increased heart rate, and difficulty breathing. Sometimes a person suffering from panic attacks may feel as if they are going crazy from increasing anxiety.

How do panic attacks manifest?

“Attacks are always accompanied by vegetative symptoms,” says psychotherapist Irina Lopatchenko. — Sweating of the palms and feet occurs, the face and neck turn red. It becomes difficult for a person to inhale or exhale. If you measure your blood pressure at this moment, it will be elevated. The pulse will be rapid - up to 90-100 beats per minute. Pain may occur in different areas: headache, chest pain - all this corresponds to signs of panic attacks in men and women.”

But these signs, as noted above, can also occur against the background of cardiovascular diseases, which seriously complicates the diagnosis of the disease if a person does not turn to a specialized specialist - a psychotherapist - but goes to see a local doctor. In this case, the therapist prescribes a standard examination, but, as a rule, finds no abnormalities or diagnoses vegetative-vascular dystonia or hypertension. Standard treatment for cardiovascular diseases does not bring relief to the patient and does not help in the fight against episodic paroxysmal anxiety. Therefore, it is so important to know the secondary symptoms of a panic attack, which are always observed during attacks or between them.

Fear of death. A person is afraid of dying and talks about this in the absence of any threat from the outside.
Loss of self-control. Behavior changes dramatically, a person may become too active and aggressive or, conversely, depressed and tearful.
Feeling crazy. Due to a lack of understanding of what is happening, periodic feelings of severe anxiety, fear or melancholy, a person may believe that he is going crazy. This lowers self-esteem and makes you perceive yourself as sick and “abnormal.”
Avoidance of certain situations. As a rule, these are places during which an attack occurred. Or the people with whom this happened. But the situation does not affect the development of the next attack.
Fear of loneliness. As a rule, a person is afraid to be left alone in a crowded place, considering himself helpless and defenseless, and constantly expects a new attack.

“Often, against the background of episodic paroxysmal anxiety, fear of taking pills arises,” notes Irina Lopatchenko. — The patient develops a strong feeling that pharmacological therapy can cause harm. Because of this, when treating panic attacks, sometimes for psychotherapeutic purposes it is necessary to prescribe drugs in small dosages that do not have a full therapeutic effect - subtherapeutic doses. In this way, the doctor relieves anxiety before treatment.”

Age

Have you noticed that some older people sometimes say or do strange things? In critical conditions, it may seem that a person has gone crazy. However, this is not quite true. Why do old people go crazy? One of the common diseases encountered in old age is dementia. In other words, it is called senile dementia.

There are many different forms of this disease, and each of them has specific causes. The most common types of dementia are the following disorders:

Alzheimer's disease (“senile insanity”). It is characterized by the death of brain neurons, which primarily leads to memory impairment.
Vascular dementia. It most often occurs in people with high blood pressure, diabetes, smokers and those who have had several strokes. Each attack leads to a deterioration in the patient’s neurological condition. As it progresses, memory and thinking deterioration, gait disturbance, muscle weakness, emotional instability, and depression may occur.
Dementia with Lewy bodies is a disease in which cognitive impairment is combined with motor impairment. A distinctive and specific symptom is visuospatial disturbances. For example, blurred vision, hallucinations, difficulty recognizing objects.
Huntington's (or Huntington's) disease. Clinical symptoms include the appearance of mental disorders (depression, apathy, schizophrenia-like disorders), nervous tics, seizures, strange gait, impaired swallowing, etc.
Korsakoff psychosis is most often observed in patients with alcoholism. They experience memory impairment, paralysis, muscle atrophy, and decreased intelligence.

Why do older people go crazy? Dementia can happen to anyone, but is more common after age 65. Early signs of the disease are very subtle and vague and may not be immediately obvious. Some common symptoms include:

progressive memory loss;
personality change;
apathy;
loss of ability to perform daily tasks.

Psychotherapists say: the higher the level of civilization, the higher the number of neurotic disorders. No matter how comfortable a person surrounds himself, this will not add peace to his soul. A person’s illnesses are often indicated by his thoughts. “As we think, so we live,” said the Orthodox elders.

At the next meeting, questions of the spiritual foundations of anxiety and fear, as well as psychosomatic diseases, were discussed by doctors from the medical fraternity in honor of St. Luke of Voino-Yasenetsky of the Vitebsk diocese of the Belarusian Orthodox Church.

People are in a hurry, running, constantly afraid of losing something. And today, quite measured rural life is fundamentally different from urban life. That is why city residents are exposed to stress, which gives rise to fears and anxieties. Those, in turn, are accompanied by somatic manifestations and disorders in humans. People become dependent on depression, which must be constantly blocked with tranquilizers. It turns out to be a vicious circle.

According to the head of the department of borderline conditions No. 1 of the Vitebsk Regional Clinical Psychiatric Hospital, priest Igor Nosikov , in order to be cured, a person needs to change his way of thinking, the church calls for this through the sacrament of repentance. There is a good work by Archbishop John Shakhovsky, “The Agony of Loneliness.” “Fear is a lack of love for God and neighbor. The one who loves ceases to be afraid.” The reason for loneliness and anxiety is that a person is trying to hide from himself, his problems, and not solve them. This is what Adam and Eve once did: having committed original sin, they hid from the Creator. Today people are afraid of loneliness, they carefully try to hide it, disguise it, but as a result, they only stick it out and suffer, plunging into an unresolved problem. To relieve anxiety, they resort to alcohol, drugs, and fall into various types of addiction. The tension accumulates, boils as if in a steam boiler, and ultimately explodes in the form of strokes and heart attacks. There is a statement that hypertension is a disease of careerists. People are carried away by their thoughts into the past, make plans for the future and forget about the present. With constant fuss, the desire to change a situation beyond their control, they drive themselves into dead-end states. As a result, dissatisfaction with life arises. It is the fixation on negative sensations that contributes to the somatization of internal anxiety, that is, its transformation into bodily ailments (psychosomatic and autoimmune diseases, malignant neoplasms and other diseases). Candidate of Medical Sciences, therapist Vilena Korneeva is studying this issue together with students. “Very often,” says the doctor, “especially among men, alexithymic traits are observed. This means that the patient is not able to talk about the emotions experienced by himself or others, that is, to translate them into verbal terms. That is why such people are more prone to addictions (alcohol, drugs, gaming, food, etc.), and also suffer from coronary artery disease, hypertension, and skin diseases. In Christianity, confession teaches you to verbally express your emotions and experiences.

“Keep your heart above all else,” we read in “The Proverbs of Solomon.” It shows the state of mind of a person. Greek Orthodox theologians argue that from the point of view of Christian morality, transplantation of all human organs is possible, but heart transplantation is unacceptable. People say that people with cold hands have a warm heart, and for doctors this is one of the signs of vegetative-vascular dystonia.

A constant feeling of anxiety is brought by envy, condemnation, anger, irritation, hatred, resentment, and hostility. Over the years, people stop enjoying life, acquiring the habit of worrying about everything. Teenagers in adolescence also do this when they are rethinking their lives. Gloomy thoughts can lead to despair. The Orthodox ascetic, Abbot Nikon Vorobyov, also had similar experiences. In his youth, he moved away from the faith in his quest, and when thoughts of suicide appeared, he was accidentally stopped by the distant sound of a bell.

There is no need to complicate life. We can blame doctors for providing poor treatment, blame bad ecology, nutrition, and simply overemphasize physical treatment, but if there is no peace in the soul, then health is unlikely to increase. Christians are guided by the words of the Apostle Paul: “Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in everything.” But we all lack joy and gratitude, so to keep your psyche healthy, try to fill your life with positive emotions and do good.

Genius

Why do smart people go crazy? Is there really a thin line separating madness from genius? For example, you can remember Vincent Van Gogh. This famous 19th century artist suffered from bipolar disorder. He cut off part of his left ear and ultimately committed suicide. Unfortunately, there are many such examples.

Bad dream

A hundred years ago, people averaged nine hours of sleep every night. Currently, according to research, the duration has been reduced to 7 hours. This trend leads to a decrease in the overall level of psychological health. In order for the human brain and body to fully rest and recover, a person needs to sleep from 8 to 10 hours. Otherwise, mental disorders and, subsequently, insanity cannot be avoided.

Nervous shocks

Can a person go crazy, for example, from losing the meaning of life? This usually happens when he loses someone close, such as a child or parents. In this case, the feelings from the tragedy that have occurred can be so strong that a person cannot feel anything else except pain, grief and devastation. At such moments, many close down, do not pay attention to anything, worry and often try to drown out the pain with alcohol. If this condition drags on, depression and psychological breakdowns may occur. In addition, when a person cannot cope with emotions and does not receive psychological help or the support of close friends or relatives, he may develop suicidal thoughts.

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Many people are subconsciously afraid of:

how not to go crazy from loneliness;
lose all social connections;
to be left without family and friends.

They start getting to know each other in a hurry, doing things they don’t want to do. And as a result, they are often disappointed and unwilling to see anyone at all. Then they withdraw into themselves and try to isolate themselves from others.

True loneliness is extremely rare.

As an illustration of this condition, we can point to the main character of Daniel Defoe’s novel of the same name “Robinson Crusoe”. There are other places and difficult circumstances in which a person's ability to communicate is severely limited. This is already an extreme degree of loneliness. This situation can be corrected only by changing the negative situation itself.

For those who live in society and have the opportunity to move independently, and are not bedridden by a serious illness, everything is not so bad. There are always people nearby, even strangers. But you can talk to them - at least ask for directions or find out the number of the approaching bus.

Most often, people acutely feel their uselessness and internal discomfort due to the fact that there are no people nearby with whom they can talk about everything in the world, share grief and joy. Those who have not had a loved one for a long time are very worried. Even surrounded by close friends and relatives, they cannot get rid of the feeling of melancholy and become depressed.

You should not be afraid to become your own absolute “master” for some period of time.

No one will make a comment, no one will laugh at you because of a child’s hobby, and no one will have to report to anyone for the day they have lived. However, one should slowly get out of this state and slowly join society, because man is a social being.