Is it normal to talk to yourself? Internal dialogue or self-talk

I agree with what was written... But I want to add something. And I believe that the topic of the inner voice should be one of the main ones in our lives. HE can both create and destroy our different lives.. To be honest, I haven’t figured this topic out yet.. But I was very interested and I’m sure that every person has this. For some reason, this begins for many with an internal dialogue from childhood, and we are not very interested in this matter from the people who surrounded us, right?.. They could explain this to us with internal thinking and nothing surprises us. But as they grow up, many people develop their inner Thinker...or it was already developed!.. I am not an old-timer of mystical ideas. But there is a voice that advises inexplicable things and people in psychiatry sit because of this and remain with these inner Thinkers forever. Why did this interest me?. After all, at first glance, internal dialogue is ordinary things, and psychologists and psychiatrists will deal with the Thinker if moments dangerous to society arise.. But this came to me and this is not at all an internal dialogue.. But communication with oneself and out loud from my real friends.. I treat this normally because I live alone and am far from a savage and I believe that the lived process - a person’s life experience deserves respect and attention.. Ordinary in short) But relatives think that this is not normal.. And they give examples different people who speak out loud... consider this to be a deviation from the norm. But there is a strong difference of opinion regarding the norm. And there is one more thing.. I don’t feel in myself an inner thinker or advisor, announcer, voice.. whatever they call it!?.. And I think that internal dialogue is similar.. but still different.. In my life now hard minuses to be brief... I even began to think and understand that soon the journey of life would be over... I noticed that I like to go to the cemetery... a terrible name for a place of the dead, don’t you agree?)).. I began to think often about those who passed away this world about his late father... Some kind of fatality and calmness as I tried on myself... I repeat that I am not a supporter of mysticism, but I have my firm conviction that in every seeming chaos there is a clear order that no one has yet explained.. I became talk to yourself, these thoughts do not come from me!! I’m like a receiver now... And of course I don’t do this in society.)) I can’t figure out where this comes from.. But I conduct a dialogue out loud in some kind of special sobriety and this helps me a lot to deal with problems, correctly laying out situations into details, but also think about why we are here. . And you are right that there is no need to have other advisers.. But one moment bothers me quite a bit, I’m getting used to doing this and getting used to being alone.. We are in society after all))).. I don’t know how life will turn out in the future and By the way, I’m not very worried about this.. Although the needs in life are, of course, relevant in many respects)) I think that the topic of this should be widely known and requires discussion, but only by those who understand what I mean..

According to research by psychologists, it turns out that people talk to themselves about 70% of the time. The conversation is conducted with the inner voice, that is, with oneself. We ask him questions, consult, ask him to evaluate our actions...

Currently, psychologists around the world argue that such a conversation only benefits a person. It helps prevent many mistakes in actions, concentrates attention and frees us from excess internal tension. Let's look at the reasons for this phenomenon. Why do we sometimes talk to ourselves and how is such internal dialogue useful?

Reasons for talking to yourself

First

People who are insecure get from such a conversation, first of all, the opportunity to concentrate. And this, in due time, gives them confidence in the correctness of their choice of actions. It turns out that self-talk helps them plan and control their actions.

Second

People who have a predominant auditory type of body language are more likely to talk to themselves. They learn information through sounds. Research by scientists has shown that about 25% of people belong to this type.

Auditory learners can talk to themselves often and a lot. They learn information better by listening. For them, a verbal explanation of an action or process is of great importance. They listen more. Therefore, such dialogue with themselves is important to them.

Third

Self-talk (in other words, sounds) gives a person an emotional coloring to his thoughts. This helps him find the right rationale for his actions and actions. When we are silent, we do not experience such emotions. After all, sound (speech) is initially an emotional reaction of the human body, which prompts one to perform certain actions.

Fourth

By talking to himself, a person frees himself from the emotions that are overwhelming him at the moment. They require release, a way out. And in this case, this happens due to self-talk. In this way, we get rid of excess emotions and noticeably reduce our internal tension, otherwise it may happen.

Fifth

Self-talk has a significant impact on the structure of a person's thinking. A person begins to think and behave differently than if he had not had this conversation with himself. The thinking process becomes much more effective if our thoughts are spoken out loud. This has long been confirmed by psychologists in their research. It is better remembered when we say something out loud.

Sixth

Psychologists have proven that dialogue with oneself, even mental, helps a person avoid thoughtless actions and better control their own sometimes impulsive behavior. It has been experimentally revealed that the number of such actions decreases sharply if the person spoke to himself beforehand. Control over unpredictable human behavior also increases noticeably. It has also been proven that if you speak out loud the details of a new task, you remember it better and master it faster.

What to do if you notice that you often talk to yourself?

If such dialogue helps you make the right decisions and actions, then do not try to get rid of it. You can simply make some adjustments to this situation.

Firstly:

Try to do this not so loudly as to not attract people around you. This will save you from awkward situations.

Secondly:

Prepare in advance when you go anywhere.

When going to the store, you can make a list of the necessary goods that you need to buy. When leaving, calculate the time you leave the house. Think through every detail before leaving them at home. Check the apartment again. So that everything is turned off and nothing is forgotten with you. This way, you will partially save yourself from talking to yourself. Thoughtful preparation will also give you confidence in your further actions, and you will be less likely to say what you want to remember or doubt about something.

A man is walking down the street, muttering something to himself, smiling or frowning, animatedly arguing with himself. Passers-by react differently - someone twirls his finger at his temple, someone calmly walks by - and they didn’t see anything like that, again, why is it strange, the man says to himself. What to do if there is no good interlocutor nearby?!

It's nice to talk to an intelligent person. Especially if you always have this smart person with you - yourself. Of course, people on the street expressively communicating with themselves out loud is still a sad picture, reminding some of Robinson Crusoe, some of a mental hospital, some of prison, some of approaching insanity.

But in reality, let's be honest: we don't talk to anyone more than to ourselves. That is, we are talking to ourselves. About yourself beloved to yourself.

Psychologists say that a person talks to himself approximately 70% of the time. We tend to believe this. Our inner voice gives us advice, teaches us how to live, reminds us of necessary purchases and tasks, and evaluates whether we have done our job well. Now, when you are reading these lines, you have probably already started an internal debate, discussing some of my phrases or continuing them. Of course, you didn’t say it out loud, but you probably already started talking... Some people call communication and, most importantly, listening to the inner voice intuition, some call it logic, but these internal stories are our internal dialogue.

Source of internal strategies
or Who speaks in our head?

Remember the bearded joke? A cowboy runs away from the Indians and thinks: “This is the end!”
An inner voice tells me: “No, this is not the end. We must climb the tallest tree."
Climbing in.
Indians set fire to a tree.
"Now it's over!" - the cowboy understands.
“No,” says an inner voice, “we must shoot the leader.” The cowboy shoots, the Indians angrily cut down the tree. “Now it’s over!” - states the Inner Voice with satisfaction.

There are many anecdotes about a person’s conversation with himself, in which, as a rule, the inner voice gives a lot of useful advice, which in the end still destroys the life or health of its owner. In these anecdotes, the inner voice becomes like Kopelyan’s off-screen voice in a film about Stirlitz - this is a separate creature that knows much more than his “outer shell”. But what is it really, our inner voice, conducting an internal dialogue with us - where does it come from, why do we need it and how to deal with it so that it does not destroy anything in our lives, like its counterpart from jokes?

Watching young children, all parents notice that the child often talks to himself, commenting on his actions. And he doesn’t say all this “I put a cube on a cube” with the teacher in mind - this is how he learns to think in language.

Some people retain the habit of commenting on their actions out loud - we have all seen the process of searching for the right thing, when a person, walking around the room, thinks out loud: “Where could I put it? Came yesterday with this jacket, maybe in my pocket? No, I’ll have to go to the kitchen and see if I suddenly posted it...”

This process is also very clear to people who learn a foreign language as adults: at some point there is a desire to pronounce their actions in a new language, and then a statement of fact comes: “I began to think in this language.”

Internal dialogue helps us not only formalize in words, but also form an internal picture of the world. And sometimes it even completely replaces it. For example, a man was walking and tripped. What does the inner voice say? “Here they put stones, you freaks.” That is, the inner voice said that the world is not perfect. Another person at this moment thinks: “Well, when you put on white shoes, you’ll immediately fall into the mud, and in general, it’s always like that with you.” An inner voice said that it was not the world that was imperfect, but this stumbled man. The third inner voice consoled: “Well, it’s nothing, it’s nothing, and in general everything will be fine, but life is like a zebra...”

Where do all these voices come from? A very large number of voices that sound inside us (we are not taking a clinical case when angels or demons talk to a person, but a normal person, within whom there is a discussion of his actions and deeds) come from childhood. These action comments are most often what a little person hears from parents. Our internal dialogue shapes our self-esteem!

If you listen, the words that sound in the head of an adult often have a very clear “original” affiliation: if you ask a person to think about who pronounces certain words in his head, then, after thinking, he will say in surprise: “That’s what mom said!”

And indeed, the process of finding our “inner friend”, who forms our self-esteem, happens like this: a little person is going to kindergarten, and his mother, rushing to work, hurries him irritably: “Kulema, come on quickly, you’re always digging around, there’s only one problem with you.” !

If a child often hears such text in childhood, he begins to treat himself this way in the future. Remember how in "Alice in Wonderland"? “If you call a pig out loud, from the cradle, bayushki-bayu, Even the most humble child will turn into a pig in the future.”

Well, no matter what, but, of course, mother’s voice is “recorded” on a tape recorder in a person’s head - and then throughout life the person begins to speak this text to himself at the “right” moments. And if this same baby buries himself in the kindergarten with his things, and no one notices it, the “vigilant mother” in his head will still speak - and now the baby, pulling his boots on his feet and tying a scarf, says to himself: “Well, kulema, forever you're digging!

The words that a child hears most often then form his life strategies. And my mother’s irritated words create losers.

It is clear that we have already inherited the set of internal voices that we received. You can also do a lot of things with it, we will definitely talk about this. But what conclusions can we draw for ourselves about the “inherited” “records” with voice recordings?

Firstly, psychologists have noticed that 70% of people conducting internal dialogue look at themselves through the eyes of someone who does not love them, finds fault with them, and evaluates them in a negative way. The solution suggests itself. Let's put into action the one who loves us! Let him, as a writer, admire his character (that is, us), say: “Oh, how lovely her cheeks are today...!” You can learn from the example of how Leo Tolstoy described Natasha Rostova, his favorite heroine. Why are we worse? All in our hands!

At the same time, we can begin to shape our children's strategies by offering them "winning" strategies. We taught my little son to eat with a spoon while simultaneously conducting this experiment. They showed it - you take it, bring it, swallow it. He did everything diligently, after each “successful” spoon we shouted: “Well done!” The next day, the son ate himself and shouted “madeees” to himself. But what’s remarkable is that now, if he succeeds at something, he says to himself “well done!” Bye out loud. But I think that soon he will learn to speak to himself with a “good inner voice” and inside. It is important that he already knows that he is good.

What should we, adults, do when our inner voice tells us nasty things?!

Well, first of all, the most important thing is not to start arguing with him internally, like that same cowboy. Who are we arguing with?! If the internal dialogue is the voice of people who are authoritative for us, it is difficult to argue with them. And besides, when we begin to argue, we recognize the right of the inner voice to a separate existence. But these thoughts are our property, they are part of us!

What would you think if I told you to coax your finger to bend? Brad, really? When we need to, we simply bend our finger. You need to treat your inner voice in the same way - it’s your inner voice, and in order to control it, you must first of all treat it not as a living being, but as a finger.

This means that you can try to somehow transform it, “bend it”.

Conduct an experiment: try saying the text that condemns you, “well, you’re always like this, you hold out until the last minute, and then you suffer”:

• 2 times faster
• in the voice of Disney cartoons
• or, on the contrary, stretch out these words, sing in the voice of Chaliapin: “well... what are you... again....”

Is it possible to maintain attention on the “tragic and damning” meaning of the phrase?

Do you notice your attitude? Are you still upset? Is this squeaking about “again you failed at your job” still significant information for you?

One of my acquaintances experienced enormous difficulties when meeting girls: he, a very interesting man in appearance, thought that girls did not like him. Every time he met a girl, he replayed the following text in his head: “She will tell you, they say, where did you come from, there are many of you like that...” As a result, he was offended in advance - and did not meet the girl. Or he went to get acquainted, but with an expression on his face that was not conducive to acquaintance - and actually received such an answer.

The fact is that our internal dialogues are reflected in the body, and a person inside of whom the text “here, again you are acting like an idiot” sounds can cause such a reaction. The funny thing is that in the end we begin to treat the interlocutor (in this case, the girl) as if he really gave the predicted answer.

But this can and should be changed!

My friend and I recited in a “cartoon” voice the entire text of the girl’s imaginary “refusal”; in the end I always added: “Well, isn’t it funny yourself?” He laughed, and this cheerful attitude helped him later build real dialogues with real, not imaginary, girls.

Internal dialogue is not something that is given once and for all, it can be controlled. What do you do if suddenly music you don’t like starts playing on the car radio? Switch to another wave, turn it down or turn it off completely. You can also switch the record of the inner voice, or you can make it quieter. Ask yourself where your inner voice comes from. For example, mentally transfer it to your knee or little finger... What is the relationship with the little finger, which dares to judge you, being at a distance of eighty meters?!

By the way, about talking with imaginary girls. The fact is that that “series” - dialogues and even entire situations that we scroll through in our heads -, as a rule, have nothing to do with reality. This, of course, is a good opportunity to occupy your head, for example, while you are going to a meeting, but there is a danger that at a real meeting your interlocutor simply will not understand the reasons for your condition.

For example, a husband returns home late and thinks: “I’ll come home, my wife will say why later, I worked - I know your work, I suppose they took beer with Sidorov - but we haven’t drunk beer for a long time - that means vodka...”... The man thought - and I forgot, but on the threshold, instead of “hello, dear,” he says: “You’ve ruined my whole life!” After all, the “wife in his head” has already driven him into a corner. And even if his wife is happy to see him and doesn’t say anything, negativity will still come out of him.

In such a dialogue between husband and wife, there are not 2 people, but four: she is married to an idiot, he is married to a bitch, and everyone is talking not to the real spouse, but to the one in their head.

The trouble is that our worst opponents, wives, husbands and critics, are in our heads. The happiness is that real people are not so terrible and disgusting!

Why often doesn’t anything change in a person’s life when he changes his job or wife? Because nothing has changed inside: the face of the boss or wife has changed, but that “inner boss” and that “inner wife” that were there remained.

So wouldn’t it be better to “change the record” here too, to forbid yourself from watching a “series” about a bitch - and instead show yourself, for example, a love comedy with your wife in the title role. And you will see that this will change your intonation and the face with which you appear on the threshold. And the text that greets you will change accordingly.

Human brain virus

Another negative property of our internal dialogue is that it eats up attention like a computer virus...

A person's conscious attention is limited. Living in a huge information flow, we are aware of 7 + - 2 objects. Now, when you are reading this article, are you paying attention to the sounds around you?

If so, how many of them do you hear? How many windows are there in the room where you are sitting? If the information we have is not important at the moment, we switch. This ability protects us, but also hinders us: when there is an internal dialogue, it takes a lot of our attention - and we may not notice a lot of important things in the outside world.

For example, that same friend of mine, while he was saying her “negative speech” to a girl, did not notice how other girls were looking at him with interest at that time.

Gurdjieff offered his students the following meditation: choose a rose and begin to contemplate it silently. How long can you do this?

A person usually looks for three seconds, then begins to talk to himself: “Did you buy this in a passage or in a store? I wonder what type it is? Dutch, probably. I wonder if she smells? Now all the roses have stopped smelling, but 10 years ago..."

It turns out that most of us cannot simply contemplate for one minute without speaking within. This dialogue takes us away from reality, making us smart and right, but preventing us from absorbing any other knowledge. It is not bad, but it prevents us from correctly perceiving reality, it immerses us inside ourselves - instead of allowing us to look at the world. When we are absorbed in internal dialogue, all our strength and emotions go into it, and real sensations become dull.

For example, internal dialogue in sex is terribly disturbing. Anything is spinning in a person’s head: “I wonder if he read the Kama Sutra?” “What if he turns on the light and sees how fat I am…”, “I should whitewash the ceiling,” “what will mom say?!”... And this does not at all contribute to the enjoyment of physical contact. Why do many people love alcohol? He knocks out the inner voice, which always contains a lot of prohibitions and morals.

It’s not for nothing that there are techniques for turning off internal dialogue. It is difficult to learn to “turn off” it, but it is possible after some training.

Here, for example, is one of them: find in the visual channel and select 3 points: one close, the other far, the third in the middle, but not on 1 line. For example, the edge of a magazine, a window, a house outside the window. Try to focus on all three points at the same time. There is a slight blurring of vision - but this is what we wanted.

Now it's a rumor. Choose three sounds: inside your body (for example, breathing), a second nearby (for example, a humming computer), a third - far away (footsteps outside the window). Continuing to hold three points with your vision, listen to three sounds. Now choose three points on your body that are located as far as possible from each other, for example, the big toe of your right foot, a point on your back, a point on your cheek. Connect this feeling to the already found points of hearing and sight...

Welcome back. Have you noticed that it is completely impossible to continue the internal dialogue - and do this exercise? As soon as you start saying: “Where are they all running away?!” - at this moment you stop seeing, hearing and feeling? And this explains, by the way, the great trick in which for a good love evening they put on good music and light candles - changes in sound and fluctuating shadows from candles attract attention and load most of the channels of perception of the world, helping to “drown out” internal voices.

But this rule of “turning off” the inner voice will be very useful not only in love, but also in business. During negotiation trainings, we often draw the attention of participants to the fact that if they go into negotiations full of internal dialogue, then they are negotiating with a virtual character.

If you go to a business shark, you will fight with him without even noticing, perhaps, that he is not a shark: after all, you have already rehearsed everything you will say and what you will be answered. And at trainings we teach: in a situation of business communication, internal dialogue - help us after the fact, not instead of, but before negotiations, there should be an “uptime state” - “dissolved in time.”

Why stop the dialogue?

One of the areas of psychology says that very often in our subconscious there are answers to our main questions, but the dialogue that sounds inside is the gate that prevents us from extracting this resource. By stopping it, we can get the answer to the question. It drowns out all the channels, it’s like we have headphones on our ears - and we don’t hear the “voice of God”...

The basic principles of prayer in many religions: smells, body, sight, singing engage your full attention, you dive into it, pray (sometimes it’s even a monotonous repetition of the same “mantra”, in the process you forget about your question, but it goes nowhere does not go away, and when the subconscious is activated during the process of prayer (or you can consider this as prompts from higher powers, each according to faith) - you receive answers.

Another property of internal dialogue is that it constantly speculates.

For example, the boss frowned, looking at you. What does this mean? The internal dialogue immediately comes up with: “Yeah, I came 5 minutes late, he’s probably unhappy with this and wants to express it to me”... Or “probably there will be a check soon”...

Find 10 reasons why your boss frowned - and neurosis is guaranteed. Or maybe the boss’s boots were pinching him? Or does your head hurt? After all, maybe he is having an internal dialogue with his wife in his head - and not with you at all?

What to do? Don’t speculate - either ask the question directly to your boss and find out everything from him, or don’t pay attention. And you will become upset when your boss formalizes his dissatisfaction with words or takes some action. After all, is self-talk your ally or another enemy?

Mood and condition

Our internal dialogues are very dependent on our mood and state, and we all know this in practice. Mood - from the word “set up”. Piano tuners tune pianos. We, in fact, must be able to adjust ourselves, put ourselves in the mood. And we treat our mood as if it does not depend on us: “I’m not in the mood today!” Meanwhile, you can set yourself up for both good and bad. If you want something bad, read as much crime news as possible, watch action movies from Soviet reality, talk in the yard about what has become worse, remember that you are getting old, find defects in your clothes. And if you, having set yourself up in this way, were going to negotiate, you can at the same time explain in advance why they will definitely fail.

Which of us needs such a mood? No one. Let's learn to be positive then. For example, let's count the positives in our life. Your inner voice is indignant: “Where can I find the positives!” Change his intonation from indignant to questioning - and let's look.

Write down 10 good events that happened to you during the day. From global (“they gave a bonus”) to small (“comfortable shoes”). A resisting, harmful inner voice sarcastically asks: “Where can I scrape together so many of them?!” Scrape, try. Pay attention to your surroundings. Look at what you like about yourself. Even, for example, if you say: “My nails are fine...” - this is already a step. Notice the happy faces in the crowd. Yes, of course, there are not only happy faces, but a rose has petals and thorns - concentrate on the petals. And then let your inner voice ask you: “What else will this day make me happy?” Answer. Only - without irony!

Another important word is “state”. Literally means - what are we standing next to?

Buddhists have a practice of standing next to Buddha statues in the same position. I don’t suggest doing this, but let’s pay attention to what we are next to, who surrounds us? Those who say “what bastards everyone is” - or people who smile? What books and films do we watch? With this we recharge, setting the rails for internal dialogue. Let's use mood and condition as intended, guide them and have fun.

Well, firstly, this is practically impossible and can only be achieved by people who have been improving in higher spiritual practices for many years. And secondly, we need him - we just need to make him a friend. After all, he:

1. helps us to be in society, to think in words. Have you probably noticed that people who are constantly in meditation (optionally, immersed in working with a computer and its parts), from the point of view of ordinary people, are not very comfortable in communication, because for them formulating thoughts out loud is very hard work?

1. allows you to remember the sequence of events

1. helps to think through the system of public entry - only BEFORE and AFTER, but most importantly - not during! After all, it’s funny when a person talks to himself, not noticing that the audience is already asleep. Internal dialogue should be constructive, carry positive emotions, and help achieve goals. Help structure the experience, not replace it.

1. helps us to be in a blissful state - if, of course, we have worked on it. As the Russian people say, “If you don’t praise yourself, no one will”

Internal dialogue is what allows us to look smart, the main thing is that we still have time to receive feedback and react to it.

Well, if you really, really want to continue dialogues with your only friend - your choice. Nowadays, these dialogues are becoming even more comfortable: hang the mobile phone accessories on your ear - and talk to your heart’s content, no one will think that this is not a telephone conversation with yourself. But it’s always nice to talk to a truly smart person!

Sometimes people talk to themselves. Most often this is a sign of loneliness, when you want to talk, but have no one to talk to. For such people, we can recommend having a pet. You can calmly talk to him out loud, it’s even funny. Sometimes children talk out loud, often during play. In this case, they are trying to voice their role, they lack attention. Perhaps such a child needs to play with peers more often so that he does not get used to speaking for himself and for the doll.

If people talk to themselves out loud, they often really lack human attention. In this situation, it is necessary to expand your social circle, go out more often, and communicate with people. Start a business, a hobby, you don’t need to isolate yourself. You can try looking for friends on the Internet, this also helps.

Why else does a person talk to himself out loud?

Also, due to the abundance of information that the brain receives during work, many begin to pronounce numbers or words so as not to get confused. This speaks of a person’s special attentiveness, his fear of making mistakes. Of course, this cannot be called pathology. It may look unusual, but it’s not scary. Some also call such things egocentric appeal, that is, words to oneself. It can also be an overlay of loneliness.

Mental illnesses

However, in addition to the usual recitation of text or dialogues out loud, many have real disputes with absent people around them. Sometimes the conversation looks quite aggressive. This indicates a person’s mental illness, some of which are congenital.

What pathologies are there:

• Psychopathy;
• Schizophrenia;
• Split personality and others.

A split human personality is a diagnosis that can be obtained as a result of experienced mental traumas, often from childhood. Sexual or physical influence influences the behavior of an adult. It seems to him that he is developing several personalities, and of different genders. There may be about a dozen of them. He may experience not only depression, but also try to harm himself. Many people suffer from schizophrenia. They are quite adequate until they start talking to themselves. Often creative people suffer from schizophrenia; it’s like withdrawing from the stress of the world around them.

Don't diagnose yourself, consult a doctor

These diseases are already being treated by a psychiatrist, but in any case, the person needs to be examined and not diagnosed unfoundedly. If a person has experienced severe stress, has been in a state of loneliness for a long time, and likes to think out loud, then he will often behave strangely. That is why the reasons why people talk to themselves can be different, and pathology does not always occur. However, if there is a history of schizophrenia in the family, you need to keep in mind that the disease is often inherited and in certain circumstances may well recur.

Finding out why people talk to themselves is not difficult; you just need to contact a specialist, and he will name the reason in each specific case.

The norm includes behavior in which a person, in the process of mental stress or stress, pronounces information to make it easier to assimilate. For example, learning terms and definitions, performing computational actions and others.

However, if a person conducts a dialogue with an imaginary interlocutor, hears non-existent voices and suffers from other hallucinations, one should talk about a mental disorder. A preliminary diagnosis is made by a doctor after analyzing a person’s behavior and complaints.

Nowadays, people are constantly under stress and anxiety. As a rule, a person’s consciousness is constantly occupied with solving problems, as a result of which rest and sleep patterns are disrupted, so the body works under increased load. A lifestyle in which a person is constantly in a state of mental stress, lasting for a long time, will most likely lead to exhaustion of the nervous system and neurotic reactions.

Prolonged depression, tragic events and other mental shocks can cause neuropsychiatric disorders. Thus, such disorders are accompanied by the behavior of a person when he talks to himself. It should be noted that women, due to their characteristic emotionality, increased sensitivity and anxiety, are more prone to neuroses.

Causes of neurotic disorders and their consequences

Lack of joy and relaxation, poor nutrition, pessimism, continuous stress and responsibility, high anxiety and others can lead to a neurotic disorder, such as depression. An anxious, depressed state of a person also negatively affects the functioning of internal organs. A malfunction in the body is dangerous because it can lead to various diseases.

Any mental disorder should be observed by a doctor who will prescribe the necessary treatment. You should not take anti-anxiety medications, such as antidepressants, unless advised by a doctor. Because each disorder has its own treatment regimen, and medications have side effects.

It is important to take care of your mental health, rest on time, avoid stress, do not overload your body with loads, and carefully monitor your general well-being. You should fill your life with interests and hobbies, surround yourself with loved ones and friends, love life and rejoice, despite the problems.