Stupor in psychology is called the state of a person, in which he is silent and immobilized. A person who has fallen into a psychological stupor does not react in any way to what is happening around him, to external stimuli (pain, screams, cold). He can not eat for a long time, do not answer questions, generally freeze in one pose. There may be a stupor in the head with depression, various mental disorders, due to severe stress, fright.
The main types of stupor
Women are much more likely than men to fall into emotional stupor. This condition usually arises because of the bright emotional upheavals (fear, horror, grief, disappointment). In this case, there is a blockage of motor activity and affective activity, mental activity also slows down. This condition can pass without treatment and without special consequences, and can lead to a panic state, during which the ill will rush to commit chaotic actions (run, scream). The consequence of this may be depression . The state of a stupor of this type can appear in a woman who has become a witness of a catastrophe, an accident, someone's suffering. It can occur in soldiers during the battle, as well as in children, for example, during examinations.
Both women and men are equally characterized by a depressive stupor. It can occur with deep depression, accompanied, as a rule, by an expression of suffering on the patient's face, hunched posture, lowered gaze. Patients in this state can answer questions in monosyllables, in a whisper. This kind of stupor can last from a few hours to weeks, while people in this state can refuse to eat.
Mental stupor is often peculiar to people sensitive, emotional, vulnerable and creative natures with a subtle emotional organization. He comes as apathy, depression, laziness, a creative crisis, the inability to think, feel and act in a new way, a kind of spiritual "stiffness".
Quite often, the overly emotional representatives of the fair sex also have a hysterical stupor. This condition is usually manifested by affective instability, which can be caused by a changed environment. Hysterical stupor can be a kind of defensive reaction in difficult circumstances, threatening the life or well-being of a person. It can develop either complete immobility, or, conversely, a living emotionality, a psychomotor agitation. Suffering this kind of stupor is characterized by increased mimicry - the patients can pointlessly goggle, build up grimaces, cry. Apathetic stupor - this is practically a stay in a state of apathy : the patient is characterized by immobility, passivity, lack of desires and interests.
How to get out of the stupor?
How to overcome the stupor, just know only experts - psychotherapists, psychologists, psychiatrists. But if you see that a person close to you
- can help massage special points that are above the pupils of the eyes, exactly in the middle, equidistant from the eyebrows and the beginning of the hair growth line. Massaging these points need pads of fingers, index and large;
- you can try to cause the patient to have any strong emotions, even negative - to tell him anything, with a clear and confident voice, sometimes even a slap in the face helps;
- stupor can go away if you bend the person's fingers on your hands and press them hard against the palms of your hands, your thumbs should remain straightened.