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Infantilism - causes and signs.

Infantilism is not a disease, but a delay in personality development, which is accompanied by behavior and psychology that do not correspond to the person's age.

The reasons for infantility come from childhood:

Excessive parental guardianship,
Excessive severity of parents
Fear of life
Unwillingness to take responsibility for your actions,
Spoiled,
Reluctance to work
Laziness.

Infantilism is characteristic of both men and women. Remaining a carefree child at heart, adults in this way avoid solving life problems, from taking responsibility for their relatives. Their desire to spend their lives playfully is a defense mechanism from the world in which they feel uncomfortable.

How to get rid of infantilism? How to educate an adult in yourself if even the parents could not do this?

First of all, you need to decide on the priorities:

What is adult life for if there is little entertainment in it?
How to take advantage of adulthood?

Having got used to simple children's entertainment, it is difficult to restructure your interests, directing them in a different direction. But you can deceive yourself a little and ... instead of playing football with friends, go to the sports section with your own children, instead of wasting time playing a computer game, learn how to freelance on the same computer, for example, make money testing computer games.

Getting used to a simple pastime, not burdened with any responsibilities, infantile people become demanding of others, expecting help, approval and encouragement from them. The selfishness of an infantile person can grow to incredible proportions. To "pull yourself together", you need willpower, and this is already an adult character trait. You can find time and take part in household chores, take part of the load on yourself, take the initiative in solving the problems of loved ones - and this will be the beginning of adulthood.

Dipping himself gradually into adulthood, an infantile person will eventually learn to swim on it without much fear and will forget about his childhood habits, because adults are always and everything in life allowed more than children.