Humiliation, criticism and betrayal can make you feel dirty, even if it is not

Emotional trauma confuse your mozg



Sometimes people may feel dirty, even if their body is clean. According to Stanley Rechmana, professor at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, often this is due to the physical and emotional trauma.

He argues that the psychological pollution can be caused by such feelings, degradation, humiliation, malicious criticism and betrayal. The source of such feelings can not be external factors such as dust, dirt or blood, and the impact of other people. The victim feels mired in direct contact with an unpleasant person or indirect contact like the memories of humiliation. Often people do not want to say the name of a person to humiliate them.

A common treatment for this effect is the so-called compulsive cleansing - therapy aimed at the destruction of the psychological connection between fear and a source of fear. Previous studies have shown that the area of ​​the brain responsible for the sense of psychological purity, can prevail over those areas of the brain that are responsible for the physical sensation of cleanliness. For example, observed a clear link between the desire to wash their hands to ease the effects of trauma or, for example, feelings of guilt.

The idea is that in many cultures and religions, including Christianity, it is believed that sins can be "washed off." Water plays an important role in the ceremony of baptism, and Pontius Pilate, according to the biblical texts, washed his hands after condemning Jesus to death.

Professor Rechman believes that, if the findings are confirmed experimentally, then, finally, a real opportunity to help many patients with similar difficulties.

via factroom.ru