All people, except psychopaths, are capable of experiencing emotions. But in human nature, there are other emotional and psychological states that you have not even heard of, but many of you are prone to.
In our top, we will talk in detail about the 10 most unusual psychological conditions.
10. Obsessive repetition
The syndrome of obsessive conditions in science is called obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). It’s already clear from the name that a person suffering from this disorder keeps an obsessive thought in his head that he cannot get rid of. Thoughts are always disturbing, and there is only one way to get rid of them — carrying out “rituals”. “Rituals” are also intrusive, a person understands their absurdity, but cannot fail to fulfill them.
Suppose that a thought appeared in a person’s head that in the near future his close friend would crash in an accident. With OCD, the “patient” is absolutely convinced that this thought will come true, he perceives it as a prophecy. A person is enveloped in fear and panic for a friend’s life, and only… can you clap your hands to drive away these emotions and thoughts? Or three jumps in place?
Each person has his own “ritual”, it is absurd and seems ridiculous to others, but only the “ritual” is able to calm someone who is prone to OCD.
After the "ritual", the person calms down, and a disturbing thought disappears from his head until the next attack.
9. Passion
Enthusiasm cannot be attributed to emotions; it is rather a subspecies of joy or delight. A person falls into a state of enthusiasm when he turns out to be a participant in something grandiose and unusual for his everyday life. For example, people experience a powerful wave of enthusiasm at noisy concerts or while watching an exciting movie.
This condition is short-term and sharp, there is nothing bad in it, because the hormones of happiness and joy boil in the blood. A person feels a wave of inspiration, a desire to live and fulfill his plan appears.
8. Compensation
A very unusual psychological state, which is the opposite of the concept of "jealousy." You will realize that you are in a state of compulsion when you learn about the betrayal of your other half and ... rejoice for it!
During the compilation, a person experiences emotions of joy or excitement when he hears about the sexual betrayal of his partner. Compensation is often associated with polyamorous relationships in which couples have sex with other people without hiding it from each other.
7. The feeling of the group
Often this condition is typical for people who are unsure of themselves, like to shift responsibility for their decisions, and crave support. The feeling of the group makes a person calm in his soul, as he feels comfortable due to the fact that other people support his decision, or share his thoughts.
6. Sublimation
The concept of “sublimation” was introduced by Sigmund Freud. By sublimation, the psychologist understood the redirection of a person’s sexual desire in some activity. According to Freud’s teachings, if you performed some action, for example, prepared dinner, and as a result felt satisfaction, then you sublimated.
That is, you controlled the subconscious sexual desire, directing this energy to something useful. Often, sexual energy is sent to creativity: people paint, embroider, do needlework and calm down.
In modern teachings, the concept of sublimation includes not only the redirection of energy from sexual desire. It is believed that you can sublimate all your secret desires. The most striking example is the work of a surgeon. People of this profession have sadistic inclinations, but they sublimate this desire to save human lives.
5. Aporia
Aporia is a dangerous condition in which a person can fall if his faith in something important is destroyed. The condition is characterized by apathy, emptiness, hopelessness and doom. A person in this state does not understand how to live on, because his firm belief is destroyed by the irrefutable evidence of his opponent.
4. Dysphoria
From the prefix, you can already understand that the state of dysphoria is the opposite of euphoria. If euphoria is characterized by a thirst for life and an incredible feeling of happiness, then with dysphoria a person lowers his hands and all desire to live disappears.
This is a depressive disorder, accompanied by apathy, anxious thoughts, wild irritation, or, conversely, the absence of any energy.
3. Repressive desublimation
A few points ago we wrote about sublimation - this is a condition in which a person directs the energy of sexual attraction to other life aspects. In desublimation, a person, on the contrary, concentrates all his energy and all kinds of desires to satisfy his sexual needs.
With repressive sublimation, moral norms and principles fall from a person, he is attached to free love and releases energy through this psychological state.
2. Humiliation
Scientists believe that every person experienced a state of humiliation in deep childhood, when the child realized himself as a separate person from his parents for the first time. This was the first stress and horror for the baby, but then the panic died out and the idea that he was not one with his mother was entrenched in the minds of the child.
Humiliation arises at the moment when we are horrified by human insignificance. For example, if a person sees a corpse or serious open wounds, he will be seized by panic and horror precisely from the realization that any person is mortal. But as Bulgakov’s Woland said: “A man is suddenly mortal.”
Awareness of this fact and the feelings that a person experiences at the same time are called humiliation.
1. Normopathy
Normopathy is common to many people in the early stages. It is characterized by a person’s desire to act not as he wants, but as society expects of him.
For example, when meeting a new company, we can restrain our sense of humor or statements on certain topics so as not to seem inappropriate among strangers. And there is nothing to worry about.
It is scary when normopathy becomes mania. At such moments, a person obsesses with observance of all known human norms. Such people soon lose their individuality, they do only what others approve of and behave differently in each social group.