Any person has encountered a situation where he forgot something, didn’t have time, promised something and didn’t fulfill it. Quite often this is not directly related to memory, but is a consequence of absent-mindedness or inattention. Scientists have proven that a simple lack of concentration often makes life difficult for people. This means that something needs to be changed, and we will tell you how to get rid of absent-mindedness and inattention.
What is absent-mindedness
Distraction of attention is the inability to concentrate on one thing (object, phenomenon, matter) for a long time. Simply put, these are problems with voluntary attention.
Voluntary attention is a type of attention in which a person needs to make volitional efforts to focus on something. There is also involuntary and post-voluntary attention. In the first case, we are talking about weak-willed attraction of attention: a door slammed, a dog barked, a siren screeched, etc. In the second case, we are talking about concentrating attention through volitional efforts, but to a lesser extent than with voluntary attention.
Distraction of attention is not an independent disease. As a rule, it occurs with psychopathy, asthenia, atherosclerosis, hypertension, chronic cerebrovascular insufficiency, diabetes mellitus, and hypothyroidism. In healthy people - against the background of fatigue.
In children, absent-mindedness is often combined with ADHD - attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Excessive number of tasks
When you need to do several things at the same time or hold several tasks in memory, attention is scattered and concentration decreases. It’s not surprising that you can forget about one or more tasks, and perform others poorly. Having too many tasks has a negative impact on your productivity at work or school.
How to fight:
- Choose one thing and focus on it. At the same time, it is important to eliminate distractions as much as possible - remove unnecessary objects from the desktop, close unnecessary games and programs on the computer, turn off the sound or notifications on the phone, turn off the music, TV, radio, ask not to be distracted or disturbed by your family.
- Deal with incoming tasks immediately, without postponing until later . If you do new things that arise right away, there is less risk that due to the abundance of tasks you will forget about something. This method works best with small school and household tasks.
- Use effective planning techniques:
- Make lists of tasks (they will help keep the necessary things in memory).
- Master the kanban system. Write down things and tasks on colored cards and distribute them on a special board in the columns “Need to be done,” “To be done,” and “Done.” As you complete tasks, move the cards to the desired column. This way, you can always monitor the process and adjust the sequence of actions.
- Use visual cues. Place notes reminding you of important tasks on your computer keyboard or hang them in a visible place above your desk, and place something on your desk—a pen, a pencil, a book—that will immediately remind you of the scheduled task.
Types of absent-minded attention
Psychologists distinguish three types of absent-minded attention:
- Functional. Absent-mindedness, inattention and forgetfulness are caused by monotonous, monotonous work. In everyday life, people call this “blurred eyes.” In addition, functional absent-mindedness occurs due to somatic health problems, against the background of insomnia or restless sleep, lack of sleep, and also due to headaches. Remember your condition after a sleepless night or during a cold. I'm sure your attention span leaves much to be desired. Like all people in a similar condition.
- Poetic. This is absent-mindedness due to daydreaming. It is always difficult for creative people to concentrate on one thing for a long time, especially monotonous ones. However, once they enter a state of flow, they can create for hours and even days. But we are talking specifically about creativity, about what interests them.
- Minimal. This is inattention due to excessive immersion in one’s own thoughts and personal experiences. For example, have you ever read a few paragraphs or a whole page of a book, and then caught yourself thinking that you didn’t understand anything because you were thinking about something else? Or has it ever happened that while communicating with someone you said: “Sorry, I overheard you and got lost in thought”? These are all examples of minimal distraction.
Psychologists identify three types of inattention
"Fluttering" attention
This is a weak concentration of attention, which is characterized by slight involuntary switching. Such inattention is typical, for example, of preschoolers. It occurs when tired, after a sleepless night, during a headache or during monotonous monotonous work. A type of such absent-mindedness is road hypnosis, when a person falls into a state of half-asleep that occurs during a long trip on a calm road.
"Professor's" absent-mindedness
With the second type of inattention, there is a high concentration of attention with difficulty switching, which is characteristic, for example, of scientists focused on their thoughts - the so-called “professorial” absent-mindedness. Many great people were absent-minded because they were focused on their creativity.
For example, N. Zhukovsky, who is called the father of Russian aviation, once received guests in his own living room. A few hours later he got up, put on his hat and began to say goodbye, apologizing that he had stayed too long visiting and it was time to go home.
And the English mathematician and physicist Isaac Newton once decided to boil an egg and put a watch in the water instead. There were also such oddities: the astronomer Galileo did not recognize his wife in his marital bed, because he forgot that he was married. And the historian Mommsen, looking for his glasses, thanked the girl who gave them to him and asked her name. “Anna, your daughter, dad,” the girl answered.
The same type of inattention is found in people who are haunted by obsessive thoughts, or in people who are too absorbed in the implementation of an overvalued idea - a fixed idea.
Poor concentration
And the third type of inattention is a weak concentration of attention with even weaker switchability. It is typical for people who have reduced strength and mobility of nervous processes. Usually in this case they talk about senile absent-mindedness. In healthy people, these processes decrease when overworked.
It is curious that psychologists, studying absent-mindedness and forgetfulness, observed a group of people during an experiment and noticed that in men these properties “exacerbated” in the period from 8 to 10 o’clock in the morning, and in women from 10 to 12 o’clock. And regardless of gender, the peak of errors was observed from 4 to 6 pm and from 8 to 10 pm.
Manifestations of absent-minded attention syndrome
We have already examined the general specifics of the manifestations of absent-minded attention syndrome. However, in practice there are different manifestations:
- insufficient concentration – problems with remembering what you see or hear;
- rigidity – inhibition of attention, problems with switching attention from one object (phenomenon) to another;
- unstable attention - involuntary and very rapid jumping from one subject to another, forgetfulness.
The first type often occurs against the background of fatigue, anxiety or lack of sleep. The second is for hypomania and epilepsy. The third is for ADHD.
Interesting! Scientists distinguish a special type of memory. People of science tend to forget everything that does not relate to their professional activities. The same effect is noticeable in some other professions.
Need for treatment
Treatment for absent-mindedness depends on the severity of the disorder.
- Internal factors. Organic brain damage. The need for clinical treatment.
- External factors. Overwork or illness.
In the first case, inattention is considered a mental disorder, which can even occur with complete loss of memory. Most often this happens due to depression or anxiety disorder. With this diagnosis, drug treatment is prescribed, antidepressants or nootropic drugs are prescribed. At the same time, a psychologist is provided with help to work through emotional situations, if any.
"Fluttering" attention
The second type of attention disorder does not require serious medical treatment. It can be called “fluttering” attention. It is typical for teenagers and older people. This type of inattention is observed in people who are overworked or weakened by illness. Their attention, incapable of sustained concentration, flutters like a butterfly, switching from topic to topic.
In ordinary people, absentmindedness of this type is temporary, provided that such inattention is combated and the reasons that cause it. This pathology is affected by a temporary decrease in the mobility of nervous processes. In the clinical case, this occurs due to cerebral oxygen starvation or cerebral atherosclerosis. Most often this occurs in older people.
“How to get rid of absent-mindedness and bad memory? What to do?" - a frequently asked question from anxious patients, which they address to psychologists. They are concerned about whether the disease is serious, whether it needs treatment, and how to deal with absent-mindedness. Often this type of inattention manifests itself in the inability to concentrate and difficulty switching attention from object to object or from one type of activity to another. This type does not need serious treatment for absent-mindedness. The cause may be simple physical, emotional or mental fatigue. In this case, it is clear what needs to be done. Just give your body a rest, perhaps even a change of scenery for a while.
Causes
Causes of absent-minded attention in adults:
- Exhaustion and overwork. Hard work without rest, weekends and holidays can lead to this. Particularly vulnerable are people whose profession involves intellectual work, for example, teachers, writers.
- Reluctance to do something. In some cases, forgetfulness is an attempt by the brain to protect us from unpleasant information or an unpleasant task.
- Working in a multitasking environment. If a person is literally torn between several jobs, tasks or completely different areas of life, then very soon his memory and attention begin to fail.
- Other attention disorders, such as ADHD.
- Other diseases, for example, alcoholism, drug addiction. This also includes working in hazardous industries and other intoxications of the body.
- Hormonal changes. We are talking about pathologies of the thyroid gland or other problems with the production of hormones, as well as about natural hormonal changes, for example, during pregnancy in women and during adolescence in children.
- Age-related changes. Many adult women and men over the age of 30 experience absent-mindedness, forgetfulness and poor memory. This may be due to a lack of intellectual activity or, conversely, to mental overload. It is also associated with bad habits and stress. As a treatment, it is recommended to reconsider your lifestyle.
Note! Distracted attention can be a consequence of intellectual, physical or psychological exhaustion.
Diagnostics
To diagnose the causes that influenced the occurrence of absent-mindedness, an MRI may be prescribed
If absent-mindedness is present, the following studies may be prescribed:
- Initially, the patient is recommended to undergo an examination by a neurologist, during which the doctor assesses the state of functioning of fine motor skills and excludes the presence or absence of neurological symptoms;
- conducting a neuropsychological test to assess the level of intellectual abilities, attention and performance;
- genetic analysis;
- blood biochemistry to determine the level of glucose, magnesium, iron, lead;
- ultrasound examination of cerebral vessels using Dopplerography;
- Magnetic resonance imaging;
- electroencephalography with EP.
Symptoms
Signs of absent-mindedness:
- You cannot focus on one thing for a long time. Every now and then you need to drink tea or coffee, smoke, scroll through your social network feed, chat with a friend, etc.
- You constantly forget something: meetings, calls, shopping lists, agreements, some things.
- You often lose things or don't remember where you last put them.
- In written (printed) work, you make so-called “careless” errors. For example, you mix up letters, miss the endings of words, or copy incorrectly from the board or book.
- You forget what happened last week or don't remember entire chunks of your life.
- You immediately forget the names of new acquaintances or information that was told to you.
What is inattention and where does it come from?
Attention is a mental function that helps us notice details of the world around us, concentrate on completing educational and other tasks, and remember planned activities. Of course, all people can sometimes forget or mix up something. The problem appears if a person is constantly distracted and uncollected; this interferes with both his studies and his everyday life.
Signs of problems concentrating:
- inability to concentrate on one thing for a long time;
- forgetfulness (you forget about meetings, agreements, homework, do not take the necessary textbooks to school);
- loss of things (wallets, keys, glasses);
- optional errors in educational work (knowing the material, you write down the wrong numbers, miss important terms of the problems, confuse letters in words, perform calculations incorrectly).
As a rule, chronic absent-mindedness necessarily has a reason or several reasons. It is enough to find and eliminate them to become more attentive and collected.
The main causes of inattention and absent-mindedness:
- overwork;
- subconscious reluctance to complete the task set for oneself;
- autopilot failure;
- the need to perform too many tasks at the same time;
- attention deficit disorder.
How to get rid of absent-mindedness
How to deal with absent-mindedness? Exercise and lifestyle changes will help. At first, in order not to forget anything important, you can use lists, alarm clocks, and visual notes. For example, you can make a to-do list in the evening and hang it above your desk. In principle, many people cannot imagine life without a diary. So this technique is suitable for everyone.
How to become more attentive? Regularly perform several exercises to improve concentration:
- Watch your fingers. Keeping your back straight and your shoulders back, take a comfortable position on a chair or armchair. Raise your right arm to shoulder level and move it to the side. Then turn your head to the right, concentrate your gaze on the fingers of the abducted (right) hand. After a minute, do the same with your left hand and turn your head to the left.
- We follow the arrow. Watch the movement of the second hand for five minutes. Don't look away and don't get lost in your thoughts. Think only about the arrow and its movement. If you get lost, start over.
- We draw a line. Take a pen and paper. Start drawing a straight line, don’t get distracted, think only about this process. If you find yourself distracted, make a small note and continue to draw a straight line. A good result is considered if you can draw a line for 2-3 minutes without being distracted by anything. This exercise helps not only to increase concentration, but also to track the dynamics of training. If the trend is positive, you will see that there are fewer and fewer nicks each time. You can also use this exercise to check your initial level of concentration.
At the same time, do not forget to train your memory:
- We repeat the row. Place several objects in a row in front of you. Look at them for 30-60 seconds. Turn away or close your eyes and recreate the order in which things are located. You can arrange objects not in a row, but, for example, in a square.
- We study the details. Look at an object for a minute. Then close your eyes and try to describe in detail what you saw. Open your eyes and compare. You can complicate the task: remember and describe several objects at once.
- Let's repeat the day. Before going to bed, try to remember the faces and voices of all the people you interacted with. And also remember all the events of the past day.
And, of course, it’s useful to memorize poetry, read, and solve crosswords. All this trains the memory and prevents the brain from relaxing.
Autopilot failure
We perform many everyday actions automatically, without thinking: when we leave, we close the apartment door, turn off the lights, the stove, and pack our textbooks for school. If something distracts us at the moment of performing an automatic action, the program may fail. For this reason, people often lose things, forget to turn off the iron, and take the necessary documents with them.
How to fight:
- Do mindfulness meditation at least once a day. Meditation technique: sit or lie down in a comfortable position and focus on your body, its position and the sensations inside you, on your skin, in your muscles. Do not be distracted by any external stimuli, do not think about anything else. Meditation duration: 5–10 minutes.
- Change the algorithm of habitual actions more often. Take a different route to school, change the sequence of your morning rituals, and put things on your desk and shelves differently. When you change your behavior algorithm, the brain turns off the “autopilot” and begins to build new neural connections. It develops intelligence and improves concentration.
Prevention
To prevent absent-mindedness and forgetfulness, live by the following rules:
- Adjust your sleep schedule. An adult needs to sleep at least 7 hours, and it is important to go to bed and get up at the same time. You cannot leave the regime even on a day off. Make healthy sleep your habit, watch it.
- Get plenty of rest. Alternate physical and intellectual work, take short breaks during the working day and set aside an hour for lunch. It is recommended to take a 15-minute break every 45 minutes of work.
- Play sports. Regular exercise helps maintain normal hormonal levels, blood circulation and oxygen exchange. In addition, physical activity helps relieve psychological stress and improves mood.
- Take a walk. It is especially useful to walk in the morning and before bed. You can combine sports and walking. For example, you can quickly walk a couple of stops to work. Try to avoid transport and walk as often as possible.
- Develop awareness. This means that you need to live everything according to the “here and now” principle, give up autopilot, live everything at the level of thoughts, feelings and body. Make it a rule to do small workouts: hold a toothbrush or spoon in your left hand rather than your right, pronounce and constantly change your route to work, etc.
- Plan. It's time to turn to schedules, lists and charts. Do not take on several tasks at once, do not accumulate unfinished tasks. Use the Eisenhower Matrix to understand your affairs and tasks.
Interesting! If you suspect that forgetfulness is your defense mechanism, then analyze when it happens. Perhaps it's time for you to give up something, change your priorities and goals in life.
Reluctance to act
The degree of absent-mindedness and forgetfulness is greatly influenced by the level of motivation. If we subconsciously don’t want to go somewhere or do something, the brain helps us get rid of an unpleasant task and, as it were, “crosses out” information about it from memory. If you often forget about meetings, agreements, promises, writing down homework or deadlines for completing an essay, perhaps the problem is not absent-mindedness per se, but a lack of desire.
How to fight:
- Review your affairs and tasks in terms of priorities. Make a list of tasks and situations in which you are especially likely to be absent-minded, and answer the question why it is so difficult for you to maintain attention on these tasks, how much you need to do this and why. It is possible that based on the results of the analysis, the list will be reduced by several points, but you will stop forgetting about the remaining points.
- Reframe your plans so that you want to carry them out. It is easiest to achieve those goals that promise us reward, moral or material. The more specific the goal, the more clearly you can imagine the positive effect of it. Formulate your tasks in such a way that you want to achieve results. For example, instead of the goal “I want to learn a foreign language,” set the goal “Learn to communicate in a foreign language with peers on the Internet,” and it will become easier to focus on it.
- Make sure your goal is realistic and achievable. If our brain believes that achieving a goal is impossible, it stops allocating energy to achieving it and concentrating on it. As a result, we either constantly forget about the goal or cannot concentrate on performing the necessary actions. If the goal is too big, break it down into intermediate steps and move step by step. For example, your goal is to pass the Unified State Exam with 90+ points. Write down all the topics that you need to master for this, study them sequentially, test yourself at each stage and only then move on.
How to deal with inattention: the best methods – Self-development
Any person has encountered a situation where he forgot something, didn’t have time, promised something and didn’t fulfill it.
Quite often this is not directly related to memory, but is a consequence of absent-mindedness or inattention. Scientists have proven that a simple lack of concentration often makes life difficult for people.
This means that something needs to be changed, and we will tell you how to get rid of absent-mindedness and inattention.
How to get rid of absent-mindedness and forgetfulness
Be prepared that you will have to make an effort of will, but believe me: it will only be beneficial! So, first it is important to establish a rest and sleep schedule: sleep at least 8 hours a day and allow yourself to relax when your body requires it. Give up bad habits, balance your diet, quit smoking, and drink less alcohol. It is also advisable to reduce stressful situations to a minimum, although this is quite difficult.
Sometimes, to get rid of absent-mindedness, the listed measures are not enough: this means that the problem is aggravated by a lack of specific substances in the body: vitamin B12 and folic acid.
Introduce foods rich in folic acid into your diet: spinach and lettuce, seeds and nuts, mushrooms, grains, eggs, tomatoes, liver and citrus fruits. Vitamin B12 is found in fish, seafood, sour cream, cheese and rabbit meat.
In practice, it has been verified that with regular use of the listed products, the manifestation of inattention is significantly reduced, and sometimes even completely disappears.
Tips: how to get rid of inattention
To minimize missed business meetings and broken promises, you will have to become more organized. The fight against absent-mindedness involves following some rules:
- Forgetfulness is a result of lack of concentration, so it is important to focus on a specific task without being distracted by others at the same time.
- During the work process, it is necessary to take breaks, which will allow you to understand how much has been done and how much remains to be done. To avoid mistakes, before starting work, you can make an oral or written plan and try to stick to it.
- A great way to not forget something important is to use visual reminders.
- Quite often, people put off small things until later. The fact that we delay the decision of any matter increases inattention. Make it a rule: if something does not require lengthy preparation, it is better to do it immediately. Otherwise, you will end up accumulating a lot of small tasks, among which you will definitely forget something.
- An artificially created condition for distraction is a cluttered desktop with a heap of unnecessary papers, stationery, photographs and outdated labels. To prevent all this from distracting you from your work, put things in order and arrange items on the table in such a way that it is convenient for you to work and it does not distract your attention.
- Put things in their places: this will not only eliminate inattention, but also add order.
- Write down important tasks in a notebook and cross off completed ones.
- Turn off your phone, TV and radio while working, and close the window.
- If possible, sit in a comfortable chair.
- Motivate and reward yourself for the work you do.
Understand: automatism is a consequence of constant moral overload and overwork. Let your brain rest: go out for a breath of fresh air, just drink a cup of tea away from work or the monitor. If you work at home, take a break from household chores and just paint your nails (you can find out how to do it correctly here).
The use of meditation techniques and special memory training also helps to get rid of scattered attention. Regular examination of the well-known “Find 10 differences” puzzles will teach you to concentrate on the little things.
If this does not help, you may have to visit a doctor, because forgetfulness and absent-mindedness are considered frequent symptoms of certain diseases of the central nervous system or blood vessels.
Experienced doctors will help you get rid of multiple sclerosis, which is manifested by problems with coordination of movement, decreased muscle strength and joint sensitivity, as well as deterioration of vision and intellectual abilities (including attention, memory loss). However, this is a very serious and, fortunately, quite rare diagnosis.
Exercises to get rid of absent-mindedness
A calm state of mind helps you concentrate, which can be achieved with the help of quiet classical music, silence, or your favorite pet nearby.
It is very important to learn to feel yourself here and now, and not live automatically.
At first, you can even say specific actions out loud: this helps you learn to track your actions in a variety of situations, and soon no one will reproach you for being “not of this world.”
Exercises:
- If you need to concentrate but can't do it, rub your shoulders for a minute, then your ears. Special points on the earlobes activate the brain, and the rush of blood makes you perk up.
- Pay attention to passers-by, passing cars, their colors and brands, and before going to bed, replay the day in your head in colorful detail.
- Learn passages from novels or poems by heart. Learn one new word every day, expand your vocabulary, learn foreign languages.
- To enhance your focus, inhale the healing aroma of rosemary, basil, mint, lemon or lavender essential oils.
- Experts recommend using conscious associations in practice. To do this, you need to come up with a connection between the case and the situation, an important task and a specific subject. As a result, as soon as you see this object or find yourself in a specific environment, your memory will remind you of what needs to be done.
Regular sports and vigorous physical activity also help to get rid of absent-mindedness and improve concentration. It has been proven that forgetfulness and inattention can be the consequences of being overly involved in the virtual world. Reduce the time you spend on social networks, giving preference to communicating with living and close people.
By adhering to the listed rules and recommendations, you will soon notice that your life is changing for the better, and you yourself have become a more collected person. The functions of the human brain have not been fully studied: this means that nothing is impossible!
How to get rid of absent-mindedness and inattention
Everyday bustle and problems lead us to forget about the little things: take out the trash, watch an interesting movie, buy bread. But sometimes it happens that due to absent-mindedness and inattention, more serious things happen, like a disrupted business meeting, a forgotten iron, or a missed birthday for a loved one.
We are used to explaining everything by poor memory, but absent-mindedness and inattention have nothing to do with it. The whole point is that a person cannot concentrate, focus on what he is doing and what he needs to do.
In order to understand how to get rid of absent-mindedness and inattention,
it is necessary to find out their causes and types.
What is absent-mindedness and inattention?
Many people like to say that absent-mindedness is characteristic of great people. This is repeated by those who do not want to work on their bad qualities and look for excuses for them. In fact, this drawback is not as harmless as many people believe.
Absent-mindedness is a state of attention in which a person cannot concentrate on ongoing events or actions. It is also called inattention, forgetfulness, and is often not considered a vice, but only a character trait.
None of us were born immediately absent-minded or inattentive. Many people consider them "glory flaws," but they can lead to real tragedies: car accidents or factory accidents. Such people also cause a lot of trouble in everyday life, because they also cannot build normal relationships due to constant everyday “accidents,” and they are unlikely to bring much benefit at work.
Absent-mindedness has absolutely nothing to do with memory, it is a violation of attention. This trait is acquired, so you need to get rid of it if you want to change your life for the better and make it easier for those around you, to whom you cause, albeit minor, troubles.
Causes of absent-mindedness and inattention
To understand how to get rid of absent-mindedness, you need to know where it comes from. It comes in two types: imaginary and genuine. The real one may be associated with health problems such as neurasthenia, chronic fatigue syndrome, or very severe fatigue. A person simply cannot concentrate on one thing, but at the same time he is very easily distracted by extraneous events.
No matter how strange it may sound, imaginary absent-mindedness appears due to concentration, but excessive concentration. A person’s attention is focused on one thing, but he does not notice everything that happens around him. This is precisely the trait that great people have.
Modern technologies are very developed and help make our lives much easier. It is precisely because of the “ease” of life that inattention appears. Because of this, many suffer from insomnia: they seem to be mentally exhausted, but their physiological processes are disrupted, and they don’t want to sleep.
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Learn to differentiate
If inattention has quickly entered your life, it is very important to learn to distinguish the consequences of chronic fatigue or stress from serious physiological problems of the body.
If you have a constant lack of sleep, hypochondriacal conditions, routine work (not bringing pleasure), then it is not surprising that you focus on these experiences, and the outside world remains unnoticed or has significantly narrowed for you.
This can and should be overcome, because self-neglect can lead to a point of no return.
Just remember that there is no way to trigger these states. This will only narrow the vicious circle, leading you to a dead end. How is this possible? Yes, believe me, it’s very simple.
People close to you, in fact, really need your interest. At first, they will probably turn a blind eye to the fact that you forgot the date of their birthday or wedding anniversary. But grievances will grow each time, quarrels will become more frequent, stress will accumulate.
And situations may arise that are not so trivial, such as simply forgetting an important date or where the keys are. Both your life and the health of your loved ones may be at risk. Do you need it?
What to do with stress?
Stress is the cause of most common diseases, and it weakens attention catastrophically: we can generally stop reacting to the environment and think about anything.
Stress is always tension (this is exactly how this word is translated from English), and for most people it arises as a result of negative emotions of varying degrees of strength. Therefore, as soon as you notice that you have become tired, nervous and anxious about any reason, give yourself a rest: you can rest for 15 minutes during the working day - just go out into the air. No time? Leave your workplace for at least 5 minutes, and take such breaks regularly - stress will immediately begin to recede. Otherwise, headaches, problems with digestion and heart rate, shortness of breath, and then persistent depression and a sharp weakening of the immune system may begin: then problems with attention will recede into the background - you will have to undergo serious treatment.
Negative emotions are not just harmful, but deadly, and especially now, when life around you is in full swing: in a state of extreme irritation, dangerous and catastrophic events are very easily attracted. Emerging problems should not be “buried”, but solved constructively; It’s better to transform emotions into positive ones - success here comes with practice.