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Contradictory feelings - ambivalence.
Have you ever had conflicting feelings about a circumstance? How can this happen?
In the overwhelming majority of cases, a person can say that the situation he is observing evokes quite definite feelings, one opinion and an unambiguous vision of the problem. But it happens that you have to oscillate between two poles, that is, diametrically opposite sensations regarding some process or phenomenon. Why? Because, in addition to conscious thinking (conscious), there is also the work of the subconscious, which is beyond our control. In such cases, when the consciousness tells us one thing, and the subconscious mind tells us another, we begin to hesitate in opinion. This is called ambivalence in psychology and psychiatry.
In ordinary life, ambivalence is the result of accumulated experience, which makes you doubt even your own sober thinking, look at your reasoning critically. This is an absolutely healthy position of the psyche.
But deviations also occur, when fluctuations between two diametrically opposite personal opinions, hidden doubts do not give a person the opportunity to make a choice and lead to mental disorders. A person becomes unsure of his own actions, begins to experience anxiety, despair, fear and, as a result, cannot make decisions and does not act at all.
Examples of ambivalence:
- Love and hate for the same object;
- Highly moral and immoral behavior at the same time;
- Sympathy and disgust for the same object and other multiple variations.
Ambivalence then turns into a disease when, instead of a critical view of things, it becomes an obstacle to leading a normal life, gives rise to depression and a lack of desire to make a choice between two polar solutions.
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